On Dec 15, 10:03 pm, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Dec 15, 2010, at 6:08 AM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Dec 15, 5:04 am, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm looking for a way to run more than one puppetmaster on the same server > >> under passenger. Most of the puppet CPU load is waiting for the catalogs > >> to compile. This also seems to be mostly what takes large amounts of RAM. > >> I have storedconfigs on. > > >> I want to be able to move the fileserver to a different pool of > >> puppetmaster processes. Is there an easy way to tell the client, either > >> in the catalog or in the config file, to get the files from a different > >> port than the catalog? > > > You can write source => "puppet://<alternative_server>/..." instead of > > source => "puppet:///...". If <alternative_server> resolves to the > > same physical machine then apache can direct it to a different virtual > > host. (And if it resolves to a different physical machine then no > > worries on that level.) I'm not sure, however, whether you can run > > separate copies of Passenger in different vhosts. (But if not, then > > it would be a desirable feature.) > > This is a backup plan, but I would like to do this automatically without > needing to change the manifests.
If you want Apache to distinguish file requests from catalog requests, and based on that distinction to direct each type of request to a different vhost, then mod_rewrite is probably your best bet. Possibly mod_proxy would help. > >> Is there a better way to do this? What I really want is for the cheap > >> file requests to stop being blocked by the expensive catalog requests and > >> keep the RAM usage low on the file serving processes. > > > I don't know whether it's better, but since you're serving through > > Apache anyway, you could serve your files directly via http. That has > > implications on where you put said files on disk and on both client > > and file system security management, but it ought to be very fast, and > > it will scale as Apache itself does. > > Is there a good way to do this without breaking subscription and notify? Why do you suppose it would break subscription and notification? I'm not sure it wouldn't, but it's by no means obvious to me that it would. John -- 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.
