<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi folks- we're working on an internal upgrade of our Unbound instances from the Ubuntu xenial default of 1.5.8 to 1.9.0 (backported from eoan) so we can start using dnstap and prefetching.</span><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our initial test upgrades (without either dnstap or prefetching enabled yet) consistently show a large jump in response latency though. Adjacent un-updated Unbounds left as controls do not show the same changes.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While the query types and response codes show no corresponding change:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="F2996769-8B0B-483C-8473-C731325EA063" class="" width="640" height="415" src="cid:42FFD5FE-E169-414C-9447-B97451477BA3@utun10.viscosity"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And overall cache efficiency looks unchanged:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="DFB97AF9-A5E5-450B-BEC6-8BDC720A440E" class="" width="640" height="184" src="cid:D38AC3FD-5275-409E-ACFD-4B5CA99D8936@utun10.viscosity"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We do see a dramatic change in latencies:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="9D025E62-479B-4958-A63D-D8AF66D1BF1D" class="" width="640" height="419" src="cid:5AA0DE6F-1A33-4DD0-AA42-931E8E6D1871@utun10.viscosity"></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These results do not change over time as the upgraded instances become "warmed".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We've looked at the Ubuntu maintainer scripts for the packages and don't see any red flags in build option differences between versions. Were there perhaps build defaults that changed between versions? We're puzzled since a performance change like this surely would produce some mailing list traffic at the least, which we also couldn't find- so that must mean there is some difference local to us somehow. Are there suggestions on where we can look?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks!</div></body></html>