Fuzz, Numbers

[Hal Murray]

> The synthetic load with only one client is far away from real production
> load of thousands of requests per second from around the world. As the  owner
> of the production server from the ntppool, I am very interested in
> performance. 

I think the no-MRU (or early/small MRU) case should be a lot better now.  Can 
you try git head?

> Warming up, filling and overflow monlist plays a big role  in CPU load. For
> me, a monlist size that fills in about 5 minutes is  optimal.

It shouldn't play a big role.  Or at least I can't see any reason it should.  
It should be a few cache faults.

The MRU hash table was limited to 16 bits.  I have no idea why.  It's probably 
leftover from when even big machines didn't have much memory.  I'm about to go 
fix that.  Should be simple, but I've said that before

In case you haven't found it yet, if you turn on usestats, ntpd will log 
memory and CPU usage.  (I should add packets.)


> I suggest using the following realistic test mode: big source address  subnet
> (i.e. /8 or 'all internet'); queries per sec 3-10-20k; duration  5-30
> minutes.

Something like that would be nice.  I don't know enough about filtering 
packets and/or what the filter does to CPU usage.  Thanks for the pointer.


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