On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:40:08PM -0700, Shawn Zhou wrote:
> 
> 
> Our performance tests show that ISC BIND (authoritative only setup) doesn't 
> perform well on RHEL 6.4 in comparison with FreeBSD 7: bind_perf.png
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> The "Drop Rate" is the ratio of the amount response never received and the 
> amount of requests were sent. BIND is configured with 24 worker threads and 
> 24 UPD listener, same as the CPU threads we have. BIND process already has 
> '-20' nice priority set on RHEL and '20' on the FreeBSD host.The test hosts 
> running RHEL 6.4 and FreeBSD 7 are identical in term of hardware:
> 2 x Xeon E5-2430, 24GB DDR3 RAM, 1Gb/s NIC. 
> 
> We conducted the tests by having our load generators re-play BIND query logs 
> using our custom scripts and send the queries to the test server at a given 
> rate, say, 200,00 query per seconds. The queries are preloaded into the 
> memory so that's no overhead for our load generators to read queries from 
> disk while sending test queries.
> 
> What we've observed that socket receiving queue (Recv-Q from netstat) drained 
> very fast on FreeBSD but got back up pretty fast on RHEL 6 when we ramped up 
> the test traffic.  With net.core.rmem_default set to 40MB, it only helps RHEL 
> to be able to handle 180,000qps before we start to see receive buffer 
> overruns again and drop rate increases linearly.

If packet drop happens in the host kernel you can easily check where this
happens:

dropwatch -l kas
start

Would be nice to know.

Greetings,

  Hannes

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