Re: scaling cfengine?

[Mark . Burgess]

This was fixed in 2.0.4 !!!!!!!


On 23 Oct, Zhang, Anchi wrote:
> I am running 2.0.3.  cfservd on a Sun Netra T1 would die if five or more 
> cfagent clients tried to get service at the same time until I added
> 
> SplayTime = ( 120 )     # minutes
> 
> Anchi
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Perrine [mailto:tep@sdsc.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:29 PM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: scaling cfengine?
> 
> 
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> We've been running cfengine for about 5 years, and we're up to about
> 320 machines running on Solaris, AIX, Linux, Tru64, IRIX, etc.
> 
> These are mostly using cfengine 1.x with 2.x being phased in.  We
> don't use the daemon stuff; we mount the cfengine data area read-only
> over NFS and "pull" the updates.
> 
> We have not seen any scaling problems yet, but we're thinking of
> managing some 1000 node clusters with cfengine in the next year or so.
> 
> In our current setup, every machine runs cfengine at boot time, and
> every morning.  So far, all we've had to do is stagger the morning
> cfengine runs to spread the network and fileserver load across several
> hours, which is a holdover from our 10Mbit networking days.
> 
> Has anyone seen *any* scaling problems with cfengine at "larger"
> sites?  How is performance of the daemon these days?  What's the
> largest number of hosts that people are managing as a single site?
> 
> I'm a *very* happy member of the cult of cfengine, I can't imagine
> running any site with more than 3 computers without it.  But I need
> to convince some cluster people NOT to go write their own software
> update system.
> 
> - -- 
> Tom E. Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU> | San Diego Supercomputer Center 
> http://www.sdsc.edu/~tep/     | 
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