On Sep 7, 2010, at 1:22 AM, Martijn Grendelman wrote: > Hi, > >>> But for this to work, the Puppet run needs to run aptitude update to >>> pick up the new package name. Running the update periodically isn't >>> enough, but running an update on every catalog run is just overkill. >> >> I understand your concern here, but have you done the timing tests? >> >> How long are your average puppet runs and how much time does an >> "apt-get update" take? >> >> I just wonder if you're prematurely optimizing your runs. > > It's not actually about optimizing puppet runs, it's about the load > imposed on the package repository servers, when hundreds of servers do > updates twice an hour.
I use the apt-cacher-ng proxy to reduce load on the package servers and for speed. It means that I can download packages over a 100Mbps connection. > And even if that load isn't a real problem (which it probably isn't), it's > about politeness to the sysadmins of those servers. The behaviour that I'm > trying to avoid could easily be explained as abuse. I just like to play nice. > > Best regards, > Martijn. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
