[Pdns-users] SLAVE refresh performance

[bert hubert]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 03:20:36PM +0200, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Currently ~10 000 zones are configured. Every slave-cycle-interval=60
> PDNS checks if the "refresh" is expired, thus causing 10 000 SOA
> queries, taking around 5 seconds.

Hi Klaus,

These are probably the 10000 queries on the local database?

> Is it just the way that PDNS queries all 2mio SOA records for refresh
> detection? This seems a bit inefficient.

This may have to do with getting possible DNSSEC details for a zone. We
never used to have to do this.

> I currently use:
>   distributor-threads=32
>   receiver-threads=8
> 
> Is there anything I can do to handle 2mio zones and still having a short
> slave-cycle-interval?

Can you try 'query-cache-ttl=200' and see if this improves things? If it
does, it would help us solve the issue.

	Bert