RE: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-05-05 Thread Eugene Pefti
s.com Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated Hey Eugene- I know you have a few issues you're trying to tackle- but I'm going to try to focus on this one: ..you currently have people making recursive lookups through your authoritative nameserver? Just making s

Re: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-05-03 Thread Chet Nichols III
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Hodgson > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:42 PM > To: pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com > Subject: Re: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated > > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, "Eugene Pefti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Q.

RE: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-04-30 Thread Eugene Pefti
tency and cache size are correlated On Wednesday 30 April 2008, "Eugene Pefti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q. Do you really truly need to mix auth and resolving service? > A. I thought I am not mixing them if I run the recursor service on > port 5300. If you have cl

Re: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-04-30 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, "Eugene Pefti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q. Do you really truly need to mix auth and resolving service? > A. I thought I am not mixing them if I run the recursor service on port > 5300. If you have clients asking the authoritative server for recursive data, then you

RE: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-04-30 Thread Eugene Pefti
I thought I answered your questions, Bert. Anyways, I'll do it again. Q. Do you get that 'unknown escape sequence' error a lot? A. Not a lot, but the fair amount of pdns.err file is filled with this entries. What do they mean? How and why are they formed? Q. When you do non-recursion queries ('d

Re: [Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-04-30 Thread bert hubert
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 05:17:57PM -0700, Eugene Pefti wrote: > Can somebody explain me why the recursor cache size and latency are > correlated and directly proportional? > This is my dns graph. > http://ns2.w3media.net/recursor/ > Whenever the cache grows up to 30K entries the latency reaches as

[Pdns-users] Latency and cache size are correlated

2008-04-29 Thread Eugene Pefti
Can somebody explain me why the recursor cache size and latency are correlated and directly proportional? This is my dns graph. http://ns2.w3media.net/recursor/ Whenever the cache grows up to 30K entries the latency reaches as high as 120 ms. See the second graph called "Questions/Answers latency