[Pkg-puppet-devel] Splitting puppetq?

[micah anderson]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:36:31 -0800 (PST), Digant C Kasundra <digant at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I've yet to do much more than play with queuing, so you can describe
> > the scenario you have where you'd want puppetqd on a host that
> > doesn't
> > have puppetmasterd installed?
> 
> Absolutely.  We commissioned the puppetq work specifically for the
> purpose of having storeconfigs running on a different server than the
> puppetmasters.  When we turned on storeconfigs on the puppetmasters,
> we found that the puppetmasters could no longer handle the load and
> would take a long time compiling manifests, sometimes so long that
> they would timeout.

I'm curious if you recall at what the tipping point for this was. I
haven't seen this problem with a couple hundred nodes and one
puppetmaster with storeconfigs turned on. I assume I will hit it at some
point, but dont know when that will be.

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