we are running at about 10-15% processor usage now, so it ain't even close to 
make or break. We run MySQL and apache on the same box too, so we can split 
them off if we need to. I was just wondering if one way was significantly more 
efficient than the other.

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Allan Marcus
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"A carrot may work better than a stick, but only if the carrot is big enough 
and it doesn't break when you hit people with it."

On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Patrick Mohr wrote:

> I'd say that "this way lies madness".  Just do whatever gives you 
> maintainability.  The way that you source a file isn't going to make or break 
> your server.  (Unless you start embedding huge files in your manifest.)  If 
> small changes like this will break your server, your server will die the 
> first time you run a backup or any other maintenance.  
> 
> 
> On Jun 30, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Marcus, Allan B wrote:
> 
>> With over two thousand client hitting one server, and plans to grow to about 
>> 5000, efficiency is important. 
>> 
>> On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Steven VanDevender wrote:
>> 
>>> Marcus, Allan B writes:
>>>> We need to put a script into /usr/local/bin. Which is more efficient,
>>>> put the text into a variable and use content =>, or put the file on
>>>> the puppetmaster server and use source =>
>>> 
>>> Why do you care about the efficiency of this?  It's more important to
>>> make things easier to maintain than more efficient in most cases.
>>> 
>>> However, I suspect using file { source => ... } will be both more
>>> efficient and easier to maintain.
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