From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 10:35:02 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 0960916A420 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:35:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from virtual.micronet.sk (smtp.micronet.sk [84.16.32.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4DE113C46A for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3393610E752; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:03:51 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at virtual.micronet.sk Received: from virtual.micronet.sk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (virtual.micronet.sk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id noTqZ8Woxkym; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:03:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from DANGER-PC (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) by virtual.micronet.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F0C10E528; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:03:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:05:52 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1053107288.20070916120552@rulez.sk> To: Peter Losher In-Reply-To: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org> References: <46ECEBF7.8070804@isc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Reply-To: Daniel Gerzo List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:35:02 -0000 Hello Peter, Sunday, September 16, 2007, 10:40:23 AM, you 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 I'm almost certainly sure, that the 7.0 monthly snapshots are shipped with the debugging kernels, would it be maybe possible to re-run test with non-debugging kernels? -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org