I'm talking about 5,000 systems each updating about 50MB of policy data over a 1-2 hour span.
Paul Krizak 7171 Southwest Pkwy MS B200.3A MTS Systems Engineer Austin, TX 78735 Advanced Micro Devices Desk: (512) 602-8775 Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Cell: (512) 791-0686 Global IT Infrastructure Fax: (512) 602-0468 On 04/30/10 10:30, Tim Cutts wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
