On 01/13/2015 08:53 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We have put a DNS server online running DJBDNS v1.06
> (ndjbdns-1.06-1.el6.x86_64) on a 64-bit CentOS 6.6 server. We have done
> some limited testing on the machine which it passed - i.e., dnscache was
> talking to tinydns, the queries went through fine, etc.
>
> As soon as we put it online subjecting it to live load the following
> happened:
>
> 1) Within a short time period (about a minute) the dnscache process reached
> the CPU utilisation level of 100%.
>
> 2) The process would then die reporting the following message to the log:
>
> dnscache: BUG: out of in progress slots
>
> NOTE: Random sampling indicates that at no point sampled did the load
> exceed 200 requests per second. In tests conducted earlier the DNS server
> successfully demonstrated speeds in tens of thousands of requests per
> second.
>
> We then proceeded to edit the following parameters in the dnscache.conf as
> they seemed to be the only ones that seemed relevant: DATALIMIT and
> CACHESIZE. They are described as limints (in bytes) on the total data
> memory allocation and cache, default values are 80000000 and 50000000
> respectively.
>
> Playing with these demonstrated some highly counterintuitive results:
>
> 1) Setting the values lower (say, an order of magnitude lower) made the
> dnscache process run longer.
>
> 2) Shortening the relative gap between the two values (for instance,
> setting DATALIMIT at 52000 and CACHE at 50000) made it run for about an
> hour vs about 1 minute, load seeming to be about the same.
>
> 3) Running it with DATALIMIT not set was possible though it eventually
> failed anyways.
>
> 4) Running it with CACHESIZE not set was not possible at all.
>
> So the issue is currently still not resolved and we are stuck.
>
> Any advice will be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Boris.
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Powerdns is supposed to have excellent performance and supports both a
caching configuration and a database backend.
Nataraj
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