[Opendnssec-develop] Performance benchmarks

[Jerry Lundström]

On Dec 18, 2012, at 13:14 , Sara Dickinson wrote:

> Maybe we should start with 2 'dynamic' tests

Sounds like a good start.

> - grow from 1 small zone to 1 large zone by adding records (add 10 lots of 100,000 records)

This only affects the Signer and what is interesting to benchmark here is memory usage and not signing since that is almost fully depended on the HSM used.

> - grow from 1 small zone to many small zones by adding zones (add 10 lots of 5,000 zones)


This affects the Enforcer more then it does the Signer but we should benchmark both.

Whats really interesting here is to see the time it takes to handle many zones and to do normal operation stuff on a setup with many zones, so maybe something like this:

1) Add 500 zones
2) Randomly add and delete 10 zones
3) If total number zones < 10000 goto 1

Reason for just 10000 zones is that adding 50000 may take half a day on 1.3/1.4 so its better to start with something we know can finish in a day.

Is this something 2.0 is ready for yet btw or shall we just start with 1.3/1.4?

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