On 2012-04-20, Kostas Zorbadelos <kzo...@otenet.gr> wrote: > Just discovered that under Linux bind seems to use 5 threads (2 > processors). Under the same VM config on OpenBSD bind seems to have > no threads (using T under top(1)).
In 5.0 and 5.1 threads are entirely done in userland and won't show up separately in top. In -current this has changed however in OpenBSD BIND is built without threads anyway. > Is this part of the patches in the OpenBSD version of BIND? No, this is just an argument to the configure script. The patches in the OpenBSD version of BIND deal with privilege separation, the RNG, and switching to safer string functions.
