Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-17 Thread bert hubert
Hi Lee, In the past few months, quite some CNS servers have been replaced by the PowerDNS Recursor, so you are not alone! The 40,000 number has been reproduced by a number of separate parties, sample output is below. First, please read http://doc.powerdns.com/recursor-performance.html

Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-17 Thread Imre Gergely
First things first: use threads=4 or threads=8 and packet-cache. This is how I did it: Run a couple of dnsperf's like this: ./dnsperf -d queryfile-example-3million -s IP -p port -t 2 -l $((3600*10)) -q 2000 -Q 2000 logfile.log 21 This will run a dnsperf from a queryfile for 10 hours (so you

Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-17 Thread Lee Standen
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

Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-17 Thread Lee Standen
Looks like I've narrowed down the issue from this setup. The issue was one of concurrency... by boosting it up to 4000 outstanding, I was able to break over the 30,000 per second mark. It's quite possible that some combination of settings means we need to run more concurrent queries to reach

Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-17 Thread bert hubert
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):

Re: [Pdns-users] Possible tcp listener issue

2010-05-17 Thread InterNetX - Marco Schrieck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I didn't read the whole thread. But we had the same problem in past. Is it maybee a timeout mysql connection. We had this only system with out load. Ciao Marco Am 06.05.10 07:45, schrieb bert hubert: On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:27:13AM

Re: [Pdns-users] Acheiving 40,000 QPS

2010-05-17 Thread Brad Dameron
Perf testing of 2/4/6/8 threads still shows optimal performance at 4 threads. Cache size of 3M, using test file of 3M addresses. Tested on HP blades with quad-core X5570 CPU and 48GB RAM, 146GB 15k SAS drives running on CentOS 5.x with a custom RPM. 2 threads: new.2.1: Maximum throughput: