Re: [DNSOP] New Version Notification for draft-wkumari-dnsop-hammer-00.txt

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 03 July 2013 21:14 UTC

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On Jul 3, 2013, at 2:01 PM, "John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

>>>>   If yes, message cache elements are prefetched before they expire
>>>>   to  keep  the  cache  up to date.  Default is no.  Turning it on
>>>>   gives about 10 percent more traffic and load on the machine, but
>>>>   popular items do not expire from the cache.
> 
>> My question earlier still stands: does Unbound do what HAMMER says
>> (waits for a request before refreshing the cache) or does it just
>> refresh the cache automatically? The Unbound doc is unclear (at least
>> to me).
> 
> If it did it automatically, I'd expect a lot more than 10% more
> traffic.  I enabled it on my not terribly busy server and I see
> numbers that look like they're in the 1% range:
> 
> Jul 03 14:23:21 unbound[40669:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 47798 queries, 20108 answers from cache, 27690 recursions, 242 prefetch
> Jul 03 15:23:21 unbound[40669:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 53322 queries, 20319 answers from cache, 33003 recursions, 291 prefetch
> Jul 03 16:23:21 unbound[40669:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 55260 queries, 20697 answers from cache, 34563 recursions, 272 prefetch
> 

Those are pictures. Source code, or developer assurance, or it didn't happen ( to badly bastardize a phrase that the kids these days use ).