From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 17 06:59:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0E2316A474 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A59013C4D5 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8H6x0FY084852; Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:59:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <46EE25B4.8050306@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:59:00 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Losher References: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org> In-Reply-To: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:59:01 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND performance under FreeBSD 7-CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:59:05 -0000 Peter Losher wrote: > As some of you know back at BSDcan 2007, I made it known that we had > seen BIND9 performance suffer under FreeBSD and that under threaded > build on SMP systems, Linux had blown FreeBSD out of the water in terms > of performance. > > As it's now (well was) EuroBSDcon, one of our engineers re-ran the query > test I mentioned back at BSDcan and it looks like the work kris@ has > spearheaded has paid dividends. Re: > > -=- > Last night I built a disk with the August snapshot and re-ran the test. > FreeBSD performance is indeed much improved -- almost as good as Linux. > > fbsd-7-current (200704) 44K queries/sec > fbsd-7-current (200708) 84K queries/sec > > Gentoo Linux (2.6.20.7) 93K queries/sec > Fedora Linux (2.6.20.7) 87K queries/sec > > Disk-to-disk copy speed is 90 MB/s for Linux and 20 MB/s for the > April snapshot of FreeBSD; it is unchanged for the August FreeBSD > snapshot. This is reassuring because the zone files should be > in memory and disk performance shouldn't be an issue. > > In any case, FreeBSD-current has greatly improved between April > and August. > -=- > > (FYI - the disk controller on these boxes are mpt Serial SCSI) > > Not quite there, but a significant improvement nonetheless. If anyone > needs more information about the test, let me know. > > Best Wishes - Peter Please send me a test case for your disk-to-disk issue. Scott