On Sep 14, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sep 14, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Jesse Wolfe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I propose that instead of checking the run_mode in the indirector, we
>>>>> combine these settings into one setting and have the location be
>>>>> dependent on run_mode in defaults.rb.  I can't think of any reason why
>>>>> this wouldn't work and be less confusing.  Anyone else?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sounds good to me.
>>>> We'd probably still need to support clientyamldir as a synonym for backward
>>>> compatibility for a while.
>>> 
>>> FWIW we're interested in this because we're seeing issues with
>>> puppet-load (that issues multiple simultaneous requests for the same
>>> client) causing yaml corruption server-side, which means it's not so
>>> great for benchmarking.
>> 
>> This sounds more like a file locking issue or parallelization problem than 
>> something that would be affected here, right?
> 
> 
> Yes, but at the same time if you want to measure load, you want to do
> it closer to real world, which involves multiple different clients
> with different facts and even environments.
> 
> Simultaneous requests of the same client doesn't really exercise the
> system accurately.
> 
> I hit the same problem as the OP when hacking this up.

I see - you created a script to simulate load (makes sense, I do that with 
puppet-test), and it had similar issues.

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