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[Grace Wang]

Hi There,

I installed pdns-recursor 4.0.3 on a CentOS 6.5 box, that has 20 physical
cores and 128G RAM. When I set the threads in /etc/pdns-recursor/recursor.conf
to be 4 or 12, then issued tons of queries (one query sent multiple times
using multiple dnsperf instances simultaneously) at it, I noticed only 2 of
the threads were working actively, each using almost 100% CPU and ~90% CPU,
respectively. The other threads were using 0% CPU.

With a previous version pdns-recursor 3.6.0 and the same test case, I could
get 1 million qps, but with this new version that's supposed to have better
performance, I am only getting ~200k qps.

The way I installed it was by executing the following command (copied from
the powerdns website):

yum install epel-release yum-plugin-priorities && curl -o
/etc/yum.repos.d/powerdns-rec-40.repo https://repo.powerdns.com/
repo-files/centos-rec-40.repo && yum install pdns-recursor

The only thing I changed was local-address, allow-from, and threads (in the
/etc/pdns-recursor/recursor.conf file).

Could you give me some insights on why this is happening, and what I should
change in order to get all the threads to work?

Thanks a lot,
Grace
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