"overkill" being the key word. If this box is just doing DNS it would actually be faster to run it as a single processor box. Right now you are dividing the bandwidth to memory by 4. Also you could be spending a fair amount of time moving data between CPU's and you also have the problem that the data you want may be in another CPU's L2 cache. BTW how big are the zone files this DNS server is handling? -- Lee Adam wrote: > Yeah thats what I figured too. I guess since the Unix/linux admin is > used to seeing Sun prices he went overkill heh > > Adam Maloney wrote: > >> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Adam wrote: >> >>> Well dns was being run on a bunch of dell blades also doing inbound MX. >>> there are 4 of these machines doing DNS from what i've gathered. 2x >>> for non-static ips and 2x for static ip customers. Around 30,000 in >>> total. >> >> >> >> That does seem rather overkill - 3M requests/day is about 30 >> requests/second. I would think 1 of those boxes in single-proc mode >> would handle it fine. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >