On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:47:55AM -0800, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Monday, January 7, 2013 11:44:00 AM UTC-6, Garrett Honeycutt wrote: > > > > > > Webrick is useful for doing a demo and learning about Puppet with a > > couple of nodes. It is not at all meant to scale and if you attempt to > > run your eight agents, you are likely to have performance issues. If > > this is a production level deployment, you should look at Apache with > > Passenger. > > > > > Only eight? I have webrick reliably serving in excess of 50 clients, all > updating at the default rate of twice per hour. > > Webrick's biggest problem is not performance *per se*, it's lack of > multiple threads. Apache / passenger does not make Puppet faster; it just > runs more instances and handles contemporaneous requests more gracefully. > Thus it improves *throughput* when there are enough system resources behind > it, but that's not exactly the same thing as performance. > > I think webrick works well for me because my manifests change infrequently > and are fairly quick to compile (even though the master is not particularly > well-provisioned). In that context, the master can serve catalog requests > quickly enough that clients rarely time out, despite webrick's > single-threaded nature.
All true. > > My recommendation for a new Puppeteer would certainly be to start out with > webrick, since it works out of the box with no additional software or > configuration. Switch to Passenger or something more capable only when > webrick becomes inadequate. When that will be depends a lot on the > manifests involved, the hardware underneath, the number of clients, and the > request frequency. > Passenger works out of the box too here. I just install it from the provided packages. It is a no brainer -- Nikola -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
