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. >> 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? -- 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.
