Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-03-02 Thread david klein
One other thing: on the filesystem in which reside directories that house the zone files, set the mount option noatime. This will improve the performance of re-reading the zone files because it will take out the necessity of updating a time-stamp for each read. -DTK On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-03-02 Thread Dan Durrer
Running off SSDs has also proved to help startup/reload times in our usage. Dan Durrer No-IP On Mar 2, 2011, at 5:32 AM, david klein r...@nachtmaus.us wrote: One other thing: on the filesystem in which reside directories that house the zone files, set the mount option noatime. This will

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-02-28 Thread david klein
5 files in a single directory will make difficult for any filesystem. I would recommend breaking that out into groups of less than 1 per directory. For better performance, separate them onto directories that are on different spindles; the parallelization of seek (and with thousands of

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-02-28 Thread Alan Clegg
On 2/27/2011 1:15 AM, Dennis Perisa wrote: Thanks Doug. Yes, helps a lot. And yes, this is to handle adding new zones. Look into BIND 9.7.2 or newer and the rndc addzone capabilities. Solves the problem without needing to reload/restart/reconifg at all. AlanC signature.asc Description:

Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-02-26 Thread Dennis Perisa
Hi folks, I'm looking for suggestions to substantially improve reload times on a slave that is serving 50,000 zones (mostly customer zones). 'rndc reload' is being executed on the slave every 15 minutes. Due to the large number of zones to trawl through, the reload process is causing

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/26/2011 18:56, Dennis Perisa wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for suggestions to substantially improve reload times on a slave that is serving 50,000 zones (mostly customer zones). 'rndc reload' is being executed on the slave every 15 minutes. Yeah, don't do that. :) Is this being done to

Re: Optimising rndc reload times on a slave server with 50,000 zones

2011-02-26 Thread Dennis Perisa
Thanks Doug. Yes, helps a lot. And yes, this is to handle adding new zones. Glad I'm on the right track :) I should point out that those ideas came from trawling this and many other forums! I should also point out that when I said short-term fix, I meant these were changes we could implement