From: Josh Soref Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 19:40:50 +0000 (-0400) Subject: rewrite pdns-distributes-queries X-Git-Tag: dnsdist-1.5.0-rc3~38^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F9162%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fpdns.git rewrite pdns-distributes-queries --- diff --git a/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst b/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst index d44fc5cf6d..a3425b96cd 100644 --- a/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst +++ b/pdns/recursordist/docs/settings.rst @@ -1246,10 +1246,10 @@ Maximum number of seconds to cache a 'server failure' answer in the packet cache - Boolean - Default: yes -If set, PowerDNS will have only 1 thread listening on client sockets, and distribute work by itself over threads by using a hash of the query, -maximizing the cache hit ratio. Starting with version 4.2.0, more than one distributing thread can be started using the `distributor-threads`_ -setting. -Improves performance on Linux. +If set, PowerDNS will use distinct threads to listen to client sockets and distribute that work to worker-threads using a hash of the query. +This feature should maximize the cache hit ratio. +To use more than one thread set `distributor-threads`_setting in version 4.2.0 or newer. +Enabling should improve performance for medium sized resolvers. .. _setting-protobuf-use-kernel-timestamp: