[Dnsmasq-discuss] Measuring dnsmasq performance

[Weedy]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:19 PM, John Knight <John.Knight at belkin.com> wrote:
> 1) How quick can dnsmasq service a dns request if the address is cached and if the address is not cached?  I am interested in measuring best case performance of doing a dns lookup of an address, as well as determining typical lookup time for cached and non-cached addresses.
> 2) Is there a performance difference if the cache size is increased from default of 150 to 1024 to 2048 to 4096 or more entries?
> 3) If there is a difference in performance when cache size is increased, how is performance degradation characterized?  Is it linear?

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