[Unbound-users] Resolving Timeouts/Issues

[Wouter Wijngaards]

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Dave Ellis wrote:
> I don't believe the other threads are crashing, when I enable
> statistics-interval I get 8 threads printed to the log. I went ahead and
> enabled statistics-interval, with a 3 minute timer. You can see them
> below, it does look like thread0 is taking most of the queries, but not
> 100% of them.

Thanks for the detailed logs :-)

> I also changed the config:
> outgoing-range: 16384
> num-queries-per-thread: 16384

So, you allow only 1024 open files, please increase ulimit open files
ulimit -n 100000
Again, that may empower your brave thread0 to do all of the work.

But the biggest problem you have seems to be the OS distribution:
thread 2: 1912 queries, 348 answers from cache, 1564 recursions
thread 2: requestlist max 162 avg 92.7954 exceeded 0
thread 1: 1976 queries, 308 answers from cache, 1668 recursions
thread 1: requestlist max 170 avg 96.6511 exceeded 0
thread 4: 2575 queries, 491 answers from cache, 2084 recursions
thread 4: requestlist max 237 avg 117.37 exceeded 0
thread 3: 2003 queries, 366 answers from cache, 1637 recursions
thread 3: requestlist max 183 avg 102.059 exceeded 0
thread 5: 2051 queries, 349 answers from cache, 1702 recursions
thread 5: requestlist max 218 avg 114.461 exceeded 0
thread 6: 2003 queries, 415 answers from cache, 1588 recursions
thread 6: requestlist max 168 avg 91.5101 exceeded 0
thread 7: 3719 queries, 638 answers from cache, 3081 recursions
thread 7: requestlist max 283 avg 153.266 exceeded 0
thread 0: 75846 queries, 25599 answers from cache, 50247 recursions
thread 0: requestlist max 4135 avg 2140.02 exceeded 0

You are correct, thread 0 is doing most of the work.

If you look at /proc/cpuinfo, how many cpus does the OS see?  Set
num-threads to that number.

Try compiling in one of the other two modes to see if that causes a
better distribution of work among the threads.

Best regards,
   Wouter
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