[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ISC made a benchmark of BIND on serval platforms. OpenBSD outperforms Windows but is the slowest (compared to Linux, fBSD, nBSD and Solaris!) of the other tested OSs. :-/
This is completely unsurprising, considering that BIND takes advantage of multiple processors (the test bed system has four cores) by using threads. It's essentially testing for things that OpenBSD doesn't do, so OpenBSD doesn't do well.
What's really amazing is that of the operating systems which let BIND use all four cores, the performance varied from NetBSD having a 20% performance boost, to Linux which saw a 160% boost. That looks like the limiting factors (once you can spread BIND across all processors) are probably things like the ability of the network stack to process all those packets - something at which OpenBSD excels.
-- Matthew Weigel hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
