On 30 Apr 2010, at 4:06 pm, Paul Krizak wrote: > Has anybody out there ever tried scaling up a cfengine server (v2.1 or > v2.2) on a really big, fast server? I'm thinking on the order of 4 > sockets, 24 cores, and a 10Gbit NIC. > > This is to support a particularly massive (and temporary) flood of > cfagent requests to synchronize their local policy. It's going to be a > lot easier to scale the server up in this case rather than adjust the > policy to distribute requests to multiple cfservd's.
How many clients are you talking about? And how much policy? I have 2300 clients updating policy once an hour from a small 1GigE-connected, dual socket server (four cores total) which also runs Splunk and nagios, so is quite busy with other things, and it copes just fine, with a load average of 0.38. Total size of all policy files on my setup is 2.9 MB. cfengine version is 2.2.8. The SplayTime is also one hour, so the cfengine load on the server is more or less steady. Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
