On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Joe McDonagh <joseph.e.mcdon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I saw a guy once present graphs I believe in the puppet channel on > freenode that showed how much faster cfengine is than puppet with an > equivalent number of resources. And I believed him- the fact that > cfengine is not in an interpreted language alone makes it a lot faster. > That might be interesting to some people (depending on your environment > and to an extent, personality), but what's most important to me in a > programming language of any type is expressibility or usability for the > task at hand.
You bet. cfagent absolutely smokes puppetd wrt check-in runtime resource utilization and real time. Its also easier on the hosts wrt resource utilization whilst in the background. That said, puppetds talking to puppetmasterd is all XML RPC over HTTPS (last I checked), which is much more robustly load balanced than tcp/5308 for cf. Lots of cool stuff could live in the middle of a puppet site to allow for a more robust infrastructure for those that need to scale out, etc. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
