On 2012/04/21 11:54, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: > > In -current this has changed however in OpenBSD BIND is built without > > threads anyway. > > Doesn't this affect BIND's performance? > Anyway, a stress test will tell...
Untested but in 5.1 and earlier I doubt you will see an improvement with threads, with -current using kernel-backed threads this might help on a multiprocesor system. > > 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. ..also use the kernel's normal port allocator rather than bind's.
