* Berk D. Demir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-22 22:04]: > Mark Bucciarelli wrote: > > >And when does performance really start to matter for a DNS > >server? Say I host 500 web sites and 500 email domains with > >"average" traffic, for some value of average. Is a limit of > >15,000 DNS queries/second ever going to be a problem? If not, > >when could it become a problem? > > 15.000 queries/sec seems a bit unrealistic to me. > I bet even with 15.000 packets/sec your ethernet cards will create an > interrupt storm and even pf won't be able to process packets because > kernel will be loosing too much time handling the interrupts.
err... 15k pps is easily reachable well, not on a soekris perhaps -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
