I think the issue is where Linux can support this many cores. My understanding was that the Linux kernel was limited to 8 cores, but this is only hearsay.
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. > > So what's the experience out there? Can cfservd scale up and keep > 10Gbit of bandwidth busy? Can it utilize 24 cores? Will it fall over > or thrash on internal locks trying to run that many threads? > -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
