On 05/25/2010 09:33 AM, Nick Silkey wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Joe McDonagh > <[email protected]> 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. > Yea, like you said it's just more feasible I think in your environment with the more arcane architectures and OSs alone, performance benefits probably matter a lot more at your scale too. > 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. > They ditched XMLRPC (THANK GOD!!!) for a REST arch in the .25 series. Very load-balanceable (I don't think that's a word). > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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