Seems like too much effort to me, IMO when I can just add another 'cfservd server' behind my LB VIP and call it a day.
Some organizations which have different groups managing multiple sets of configs would have a harder time doing that but.. Wes 2010/5/2 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com>: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:30:28 -0500 Paul Krizak <paul.kri...@amd.com> wrote: > > PK> The main thing I'm asking is if anybody has had any experience scaling > PK> up a cfservd to this much work, and whether or not it fell over. > ... > PK> I'm talking about 5,000 systems each updating about 50MB of policy data > PK> over a 1-2 hour span. > > I've been interested in Cassandra, which is an efficient distributed > database. It may be of interest to you as well. It has C bindings and > could serve as the backend of a distributed cfservd. It scales nearly > linearly with the number of servers so accomodating your load is a > simple matter of adding more servers. > > The main philosophical point is that Cassandra (like Amazon's Dynamo) is > eventually consistent, unlike the standard cfservd backend and > traditional RDBMSs. I'd be interested in any thoughts from Mark Burgess > and others on how eventually consistent policy distribution methods can > fit in with the cfengine convergence model (if any existing literature > already addresses this, I'd love to find it). > > Ted > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
