Are you allowing long answers when authoritative?  Performance measurements 
with and without additional data in responses is measurable (imo around 12% 
more network traffic from the replies on auth-only servers).

hth,
Len





On Sunday, January 12, 2014 5:54 PM, Doug Barton <do...@dougbarton.us> wrote:
 
Thanks for the response, but that's not it. The auth-only responses are 
>generating a lot more traffic than the recursive.
>
>Doug
>
>
>
>On 01/12/2014 05:21 PM, Sten Carlsen wrote:
>> Wild guess: network bandwidth runs out before CPU? Why the difference, I
>> have no clue.
>>
>> On 13/01/14 02.16, Doug Barton wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> Without going into too much detail, doing some performance testing and
>>> am seeing a weird result. On the same systems authoritative queries
>>> will happily peg the CPU. However when running recursive queries (with
>>> a small zone, all data cached before testing) the CPU never gets above
>>> 80%. The disk is nearly inactive on both systems, and there is no
>>> swapping. Using BIND 9.9.4.
>>>
>>> Is there perhaps something obvious I'm overlooking here? Any
>>> suggestions are welcome.
>
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