Search Again: Re: Upgrade? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 Time: 1:47:28 pm At 1:37 PM -0700 6/13/00, Peter Lalor wrote: >> > Q. if I change servers, from 6150/66 72 megs to a 7300/200 128 megs, >>> would I notice any performance boost in dns resolving ??? >>> This would be the only change. >> >>There might be some slight speed increase going from 66MHz to 200 MHz, but it >>would probably be barely noticeable, if at all. Name service is a pretty low >>overhead activity, cpu-wise. Time spent waiting for other servers to answer >>queries is probably much more significant. > >Which brings up a related question: I'm considering bringing up a >sparc 2 running BIND and I'd like to compare it to our QDNS servers >(purely in terms of resolution speed, of course). How would I do >that? The simplest way would be to use DNS Expert's DNS Query tool to send identical queries to both servers and see how fast they respond. DNS Expert will give you a response time, measured in milliseconds. Since this is purely empirical testing, you should repeat the test (using different query names) a few dozen times and average the results in some way. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: Re: Upgrade? by Peter Lalor on Jun 13, 2000 at 1:39:46 pm Re: Upgrade? by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Jun 13, 2000 at 1:42:36 pm Re: Upgrade? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 13, 2000 at 1:47:28 pm