Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> writes:

> On 2012-04-20, Kostas Zorbadelos <kzo...@otenet.gr> wrote:
>> Just discovered that under Linux bind seems to use 5 threads (2
>> processors). Under the same VM config on OpenBSD bind seems to have 
>> no threads (using T under top(1)).
>
> In 5.0 and 5.1 threads are entirely done in userland and won't show
> up separately in top.
>
> In -current this has changed however in OpenBSD BIND is built without
> threads anyway.
>

Doesn't this affect BIND's performance?
Anyway, a stress test will tell...

>> Is this part of the patches in the OpenBSD version of BIND?
>
> No, this is just an argument to the configure script. The patches in
> the OpenBSD version of BIND deal with privilege separation, the RNG,
> and switching to safer string functions.
>

Understood.

Thanks,

Kostas


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