Hi,

it made absolutely NO difference. Binarys were identical, too.

'configure' contains:

...
# Check whether --with-pthreads was given.
if test "${with_pthreads+set}" = set; then :
  withval=$with_pthreads;
else
   withval="yes"
fi
...

Can it be that its enabled automatically, if no option is given!? *sigh*

Best,
Matthias

On 16.12.2016 17:42, Michael Tremer wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 17:39 +0100, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As far as I can see, it uses one thread per processor as set through the
>> init-file.
>> 
>> Here, the generated 'tuning.conf' contains "num-threads: 2", which is
>> ok, the machine has two cores.
> 
> We always set that to the number of active processors, yes.
> 
>> The question is, what differences would compiling with '--with-pthreads'
>> make? This option came to my view, but I don't know if this would make
>> anything better.
> 
> Try it out them. The number of threads will be the same but it should definitely
> use pthreads then which is the fastest implmentation of threads in Linux. There
> is a few things outside glibc, but I cannot imagine that unbound is using
> anything else but pthreads already.
> 
> -Michael
> 
>> 
>> Best,
>> Matthias
>> 
>> On 16.12.2016 17:13, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> > 
>> > What else is it using for threading right now?
>> > 
>> > On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 16:44 +0100, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > Hi,
>> > > 
>> > > unbound 1.6.0 - with reverted commit - is running here since a few hours
>> > > without seen problems so far - we'll see.
>> > > 
>> > > One question, being curious:
>> > > 
>> > > Could it make sense to compile 'unbound' using '--with-pthreads' for
>> > > threading support?
>> > > 
>> > > I got the following in '_build.ipfire.log' right now:
>> > > 
>> > > ...
>> > > checking for the pthreads library -lpthreads... no
>> > > checking whether pthreads work without any flags... no
>> > > checking whether pthreads work with -Kthread... no
>> > > checking whether pthreads work with -kthread... no
>> > > checking for the pthreads library -llthread... no
>> > > checking whether pthreads work with -pthread... yes
>> > > checking for joinable pthread attribute... PTHREAD_CREATE_JOINABLE
>> > > checking if more special flags are required for pthreads... no
>> > > checking for PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT... yes
>> > > checking for pthread_spinlock_t... yes
>> > > checking for pthread_rwlock_t... yes
>> > > checking if -pthread unused during linking... no
>> > > ...
>> > > 
>> > > In this regard, I read
>> > > https://www.unbound.net/documentation/howto_optimise.html, but I'm not
>> > > so skilled in programming to judge whether this would lead to any
>> > > advantages...
>> > > 
>> > > Best,
>> > > Matthias
>> > > 
>> > > On 16.12.2016 12:59, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> > > > 
>> > > > 
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > > 
>> > > > that server is not available from the internet. But that you get that IP
>> > > > address
>> > > > is enough for me. That didn't happen before.
>> > > > 
>> > > > I will revert that commit and we will see in the testing if this raises
>> > > > any
>> > > > problems again...
>> > > > 
>> > > > Best,
>> > > > -Michael
>> > > > 
>> > > > On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 12:47 +0100, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Hi,
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > On 16.12.2016 11:28, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> > > > > > 
>> > > > > > 
>> > > > > > 
>> > > > > > Did you try reverting this one and test if things like
>> > > > > > "pakfirehub01.i.ipfire.org" resolve again?
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > I just tested after adding "qname-minimisation: yes" and
>> > > > > "harden-below-nxdomain: yes" to '/etc/unbound/unbound.conf', but
>> > > > > neither
>> > > > > "pakfirehub01.i.ipfire.org" nor its ip-address "172.28.1.165"
>> > > > > answered.
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > No connection through browser, ping loss on both = 100%.
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > With or without, I get the following answer with 'dig':
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > ...
>> > > > > root(a)ipfire: /etc/unbound # dig pakfirehub01.i.ipfire.org
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4 <<>> pakfirehub01.i.ipfire.org
>> > > > > ;; global options: +cmd
>> > > > > ;; Got answer:
>> > > > > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45016
>> > > > > ;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL:
>> > > > > 1
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
>> > > > > ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
>> > > > > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> > > > > ;pakfirehub01.i.ipfire.org.     IN      A
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>> > > > > pakfirehub01.i.ipfire.org. 293  IN      A       172.28.1.165
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > ;; Query time: 0 msec
>> > > > > ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
>> > > > > ;; WHEN: Fri Dec 16 12:33:28 CET 2016
>> > > > > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 70
>> > > > > ...
>> > > > > 
>> > > > > Best,
>> > > > > Matthias
>> > > > > 
>> > > > 
>> > > 
>> > 
>> 
>