On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 03:23:21PM +0800, Lee Standen wrote: > Thanks for that information, Bert. > > I had seen the documentation before... perhaps I should provide some more > information. > > Here are the options I'm using at the moment (I've tried several values): > > ------------------------------------------------------- > disable-packetcache=no > local-address=0.0.0.0
It might be wise to set this to the actual address you are using, but this will not impact performance. > local-port=53 > max-cache-entries=4000000 > max-packetcache-entries=4000000 > single-socket=off I'd remove this one. > threads=8 4 might be better given your hardware. At 8, some scheduling infelicities might pop up. > Percentage completed: 99.94% > Percentage lost: 0.06% > Queries per second: 12244.776377 qps This is decidedly disappointing. Can you retry with threads=2 and threads=4? Can you try a 'second run' with the same data? This can rule out certain scnarios. > I just double-checked the hardware and I've actually got 4 cores available, > not 8 as I initially thought: Is this real hardware or virtualized? > Lastly, I'm using the amd64 deb from the powerdns web site on Ubuntu 10.04 > rather than building a new binary. It was assumed that those binaries > would be optimized, but if they're not, I'm happy to try building it > myself. They are pretty ok - the numbers I posted earlier are also from those debs. Bert _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users