Hi,
I'm setting up a name server hosting DNS for a large number of domains, 50,000 - 100,000 domains.
I will be using Bind9 and the service will need to be restarted several times a day.
I have made some tests and it seems that restart of the Bind9 service scales very poorly with the number of domains.
#domains | restart time
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10,000 | 3.1 sec
25,000 | 8.9 sec
50,000 | 50 sec
100,000 | 7:50 min
Is there some way to speedup the restart of the service? I have noticed that restart only utilizes one core, is there some way for it to use more cores?
The Bind9 version is 9.7.1-P2 with default configuration.
The server running Bind9 is a Intel Core 2 Due 2.93 GHz with 4 GB memory and Ubuntu Server 10.10.
Any help will be appreciated.
Jakob