[Pkg-puppet-devel] Splitting puppetq?

[Digant C Kasundra]

> > 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.

I think it also depends on how many resources you are managing on the servers as well as the number of servers.  We have a model, for instance, that manages about 100 packages.  We currently have about 500 servers managed and this was enough to do damage on our two puppetmasters.

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Digant C Kasundra <digant at stanford.edu>
Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University