[Pdns-users] PowerDNS capabilities

[Ron Tsoref]

Thanks for sharing this information guys!  We'll test the PipeBackend
capabilities in the coming days.

Ron


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:56 PM, bert hubert <bert.hubert at netherlabs.nl>wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Ron Tsoref wrote:
>
> The PipeBackend seems easy to implement.  Does anyone actually use a
> PipeBackend in production and can share some general performance
> information? Is it much slower than other backends?
>
>
> We've been able to squeeze 50000 qps out of a pipe backend. On a
> philosophical note, pipes are likely to be faster than TCP/IP, and SQL
> marshalling/unmarshaling is not free either.
>
> People associate 'text based' with slow, but most SQL protocols are just
> as parsed, or even more so.
>
> The pipe backend does have a performance bottleneck in 3.2 if you specify
> a timeout, see http://wiki.powerdns.com/trac/ticket/661
>
> Bert
>
>
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