On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Marcus, Allan B <al...@lanl.gov> wrote:
> First off, we don't have reporting on. I can see how using reporting can be > useful, but it can also be a heavy load on a server. We do use Store Config. > > Our server is a Mac Xserve. 2 x 4 core Xeon processors. 8GB of RAM. We have > no load issues with about 1300 clients checking in hourly. That said, our > configurations aren't very complicated. > > Some obvious ways to split the load between servers are to use a different > server for MySQL and/or use a different server for file distribution. > Why not scale up to another puppetmaster? you may chose to run the other puppet servers without CA functioanility, this will allow you to off load it do many things (e.g. file requests, manifest compilation, reporting etc). on a side note, Foreman can run on any machine (doesn't really require to run on your puppetmaster), if you want to enable reports, there is a tiny overhead of forwarding the reports to your foreman host (which could be avoided too if you have another puppetmaster acting as your report server). my 2 cents, Ohad > > Hope this helps. > > --- > Thanks, > > Allan Marcus > 505-667-5666 > > > > On Jun 5, 2010, at 6:36 AM, Chuck wrote: > > > Thanks for the white paper it was very helpful. A few questions > > though, if you can answer it. With the large client base how are you > > setting up your puppet master(s) to hand the workload? > > > > eg. 1 puppetmaster running passenger with apache? > > physical12 GB memory, 4 CPUs ? > > careful module management? > > > > The main reason I ask is that I am looking to setup a puppet > > infrastructure that needs to support 3000 + clients. Currently have > > about 37 running against my puppet master with no issues and working > > on the design I am going to deploy. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
