On Mar 3, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Arnau Bria wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:32:55 +0100 > Bjørn Dyre Dyresen wrote: > > Hi, > >> Maybe Im a bit blunt here, but what are you expecting to gain from >> that many puppetmasterds? What I have observed is that when when a >> client request a compilation of configuration the prossess can run >> into 100%. That means it runs into full capability of that cpu core. >> I can not see how it gains you running more puppetmasterds than you >> have cpu cores? > Well, if one master gets hundresd's coneections and it gives me > timeouts, and, if I add more puppetmasters they get less and less > connections, and the host is not swapping and it responds very well, I > try tun more masters as I get less connections timeouts. > >> If you have a decent server with eg a quadcore cpu and 4gb ram as you >> say, you shouldn't have any problems. Could the problem be that you >> are doing heavy file serving that might be best taken care of by some >> other service? (configured by puppet of course) > Well, 3.1 MB and 100 files (IIRC) is a heavy file serving? most of the > files are under same dir, so I copy then recursevely... is it really > heaavy? > No, not heavy at all. >> Is there any reason to have them connect all at once? You could throw >> a script in cron.daily on the client that restarts puppet at a random >> interval every day. Then it will even out. > Sure, I could, but, as someone said here, puppet can handle 100 hosts, > and noone talked about having to run puppet via cron, I supposed that > puppet daemon was a good idea. > Sorry, didn't mean to run puppet from cron. Just to trigger a random restart, which won't be needed if you follow Joshua Andersons suggestion. 100 nodes is not much at all. > Thanks for your reply, > Arnau > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
