Subject: Re: named hostname-lookup rate on NetBSD?
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/10/2000 17:49:40 
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:32:15AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
>   As named is not (to my knowledge) multithreaded yet, I guess the second CPU
> capability of FreeBSD won't help much.

Big lock SMP isn't going to help you much at all if you spend a considerable
amount of time in the kernel (which I imagine you will in the named case).
Compile it on Solaris and compare the results :-)

- Frank