Zitat von Steve Snyder <swsnyder at snydernet.net>: > Hello. > > I am very new to unbound. I've used BIND for years, though, so I > understand the DNS concepts. Mind if I ask a few questions? > > Below is my unbound configuration and farther below are the stats > from an 18-hour run of unbound. I am running RHEL 5.7 on a > dual-core CPU with SMT enabled (i.e. the OS sees 4 processors) with > plenty of RAM. Unbound was built against the current versions of > it's dependencies, except for version 2.5 of GLibC. > > 1. I built unbound with the libevent library because I read that it > improved scalability, which seemed reasonable given that I can run 4 > threads simultaneously. After 18 hours with what I think is a > representative load I get this: > > info: server stats for thread 0: 622 queries, 98 answers from > cache, 524 recursions, 10 prefetch > info: server stats for thread 1: 18161 queries, 3186 answers from > cache, 14975 recursions, 265 prefetch > info: server stats for thread 2: 15963 queries, 2746 answers from > cache, 13217 recursions, 248 prefetch > info: server stats for thread 3: 1064 queries, 179 answers from > cache, 885 recursions, 20 prefetch Hm, with this kind of traffic you are well served with the stock defaults. You can start worry about Unbound tuning if your queries-per-second reaches at least some hundreds. Regards Andreas