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Date:      Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:39:55 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joshua Coombs <jcoombs@gwi.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: bind9-9.3.0_1
Message-ID:  <4227D88B.8070800@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <06ac01c51fff$0b151620$1700a8c0@failure>
References:  <06ac01c51fff$0b151620$1700a8c0@failure>

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Joshua Coombs wrote:
> Current testing in house seems to prove out running bind 9.3.0 threaded 
> on FreeBSD 4.9-p11.  Looking at cvsweb it seems the lockout on threading 
> was implimented 2+ years ago, based on the fact that threading support 
> was listed as experimental.  Given our testing, instead of just doing an 
> OS Version test, should threading be a user controllable variable, if 
> not enabled by default?  In our high load enviroment, threaded bind is a 
> vast improvement in performance, and reliability as we don't stop 
> responding to dns at cache-clean intervals.
> 
> Joshua Coombs

I was planning to make the change to a user-configurable option when ISC 
releases 9.3.1, which contains a critical fix to the threading model on 
FreeBSD. Does that sound ok to you?

Doug

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