From owner-freebsd-threads@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 11:57:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EDA116A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:57:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver.he.iki.fi (helenius.fi [193.64.42.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA19C43FD7 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Received: from he.iki.fi (h81.vuokselantie10.fi [193.64.42.129]) by silver.he.iki.fi (8.12.9/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h8PIvqSq061664; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:57:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from pete@he.iki.fi) Message-ID: <3F733AAD.8000106@he.iki.fi> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:57:49 +0300 From: Petri Helenius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hutchens References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bind9 and threading - recommendations for a 4.7 system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Threading on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:57:57 -0000 hutchens wrote: >I've done quite a bit of digging around and have found only a few "dated" >references indicating that it would not be recommended to enable threading >support for bind 9 >(breaks the -u opt. etc). Is this still the case for bind 9.2.2? I running >an SMP enabled 4.7 box >(Dual PIII - Intel MOBO). > > Threads don´t help you much, if any, on 4.x systems. 5.1 and above will give you a nice performance boost on a properly designed application. If you´re not ready to jump on the 5.x bandwagon, 5.2 should be a safe bet. Pete