Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor QPS ceiling

2014-12-22 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 02:39:49PM +0100, Morten Stevens wrote: > Here is my result compared with bind and unbound: > 1) pdns-recursor 3.6.2: 169k QPS > 2) unbound 1.5.1: 327k QPS > 3) bind 9.9.4-P2: 251k QPS Well - let me describe how we like to do our benchmarking. 1) Use tcpdump to record actu

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor QPS ceiling

2014-12-22 Thread abang
Am 22.12.2014 um 17:36 schrieb Ciro Iriarte: Hi Winfried, the machine has 1 Opteron 6386 SE processor, with 16 cores + 16GB of memory. AMD doesn't sport HT. Ah, I see. But I have no explanation. I have tested with a Intel Xeon CPU with 8 cores. ___

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor QPS ceiling

2014-12-22 Thread Robert Edmonds
Morten Stevens wrote: > 2014-12-18 0:23 GMT+01:00 Ciro Iriarte : > > Hi!, could anybody achieve more than 100k QPS on a recursor while hitting > > cache?. > > > > I only run two tests so far and in both cases the ceiling was around 100k > > QPS. The machine seems to be able to take more beating, m

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor QPS ceiling

2014-12-22 Thread Ciro Iriarte
2014-12-22 12:12 GMT-03:00 abang : > Hello Ciro, > > Your server has 8 cores. I don't know if the Recursor benefits from > hyperthreading (would be good to know). If you run the Recursor with > threads=4 you have only 4 cores left for the clients. I got the best result > with 4 Recursor threads an

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor QPS ceiling

2014-12-22 Thread abang
Hello Ciro, Your server has 8 cores. I don't know if the Recursor benefits from hyperthreading (would be good to know). If you run the Recursor with threads=4 you have only 4 cores left for the clients. I got the best result with 4 Recursor threads and two clients. But I think you can improv

Re: [Pdns-users] Recursor QPS ceiling

2014-12-22 Thread Morten Stevens
2014-12-18 0:23 GMT+01:00 Ciro Iriarte : > Hi!, could anybody achieve more than 100k QPS on a recursor while hitting > cache?. > > I only run two tests so far and in both cases the ceiling was around 100k > QPS. The machine seems to be able to take more beating, maybe I just need > more clients or

Re: [Pdns-users] Issues with DB upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4

2014-12-22 Thread Peter van Dijk
Hello Chuyen, On 17 Dec 2014, at 5:30 , Chuyen Vo wrote: > As we have some name-servers running 3.3 and we are rolling out testing > upgrade to 3.4. I followed the instruction DB schema here: > http://doc.powerdns.com/md/authoritative/upgrading/ > > When we add more fields such as ordername w