Search Again: Re: Annoying DNS Problem From: Jim Cobb Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Time: 10:27:34 am I would run top -u on that server and find out what's killing it. We had this happen to us and it turned out to be a mis configured service that was hogging all the cpu cycles. Also adding RAM will do miracles with OS X speedwise. Jim On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:28 AM, Scott Haneda wrote: > on 03/25/2004 02:16 PM, Men & Mice Support at cbuxton@menandmice.com > wrote: > >> This is definitely a performance issue. You might find that you can >> solve it using one or more of these ideas: >> >> - Upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3. The Unix layer should be faster. >> - Configure your server to forward queries to your NSP's servers. >> - Faster hardware. >> - More bandwidth. > > Is this really true, a 400mhz G3 is not enough to do DNS? I was > planning on > moving to just this hardware, a imac as a mnatter of fact, just for > DNS, I > can not see DNS needing more, I currently run on a 233 G3 under OS 9 > and it > was always told to me that is way overkill. > > I know some people running Bind on 90Mhz under much heavier load than > I ever > will. Is there something new about QDNS that needs a lot of > horsepower? > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 > http://www.newgeo.com Fax: 313.557.5052 > scott@newgeo.com Novato, CA U.S.A. > >

Messages In This Thread: Annoying DNS Problem by Simon Wright on Mar 15, 2004 at 8:03:25 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 1:23:15 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Scott Haneda on Mar 26, 2004 at 1:35:13 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Men & Mice Support on Mar 26, 2004 at 8:11:24 am Re: Annoying DNS Problem by Jim Cobb on Mar 30, 2004 at 10:27:34 am