On 2 September 2013 17:01, Stuart Cracraft <smcracr...@me.com> wrote:
> How can this be randomized within a range? > > I don't think it can; it suffers from the same issue as splay does, which I explained in some detail last week. > > My fear is that all the boxes will request at a similar some day, by chance > and send a tidal wave over to the master. > I think the only way to allay that fear is to maintain strict control over when each client (or group of clients) checks in, either using cron or mcollective. Or you could set up multiple masters in a load balanced configuration so that your puppet masters can cope with the maximum possible load that can be thrown at them. Regards, Matt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
