On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Luke Kanies <l...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Jul 5, 2012, at 9:49 AM, Andrew Parker wrote: > >> As Deepak said, we are taking a look over Brice's patches right now. >> Initially we'll target them at 3.0 and then we'll probably move on to back >> porting and tuning a bit on 2.7 after we have 3.0 stabilized. At the same >> time we have been taking a look at the catalog retrieval time problem. Based >> on the discussion that we had a while ago on this list, I think the plan of >> attack is to remove the YAML translation for the caching. I haven't seen any >> numbers for the speed improvement that we get for that yet. > > Peter Meier has shown that storying to yaml takes at least a minute and often > 2-3 minutes on his systems, and that same catalog is transferred in json over > the wire to his agents, which takes a negligible amount of time. So, while > we don't have a bunch of independent runs showing the specific wins, I think > we have enough anecdotal data that we can be sure.
I should note that the architecture of the indirector makes it absolutely impossible to simply save that pre-encoded JSON, so we still end up going through a decode, encode cycle to get it to disk - just a faster one. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
