I'm thinking quad xeon with 8gb of ram should be sufficient. I am probably going to be using FreeBSD
On May 10, 11:31 am, Panaman <[email protected]> wrote: > thanks guys, this is very useful to me. > > On May 10, 10:45 am, Martin Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 05/10/2011 04:25 PM, Panaman wrote: > > > > when you say 80% used.... do you meen like your cpu is 80%? > > > CPU is 20% unused and 80% used (according to /proc/stat) > > > > On May 10, 10:16 am, Martin Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi, > > > >> On 05/10/2011 03:04 PM, Panaman wrote: > > > >>> I've been messing around with Puppet on a VM on my personal desktop. > > >>> It looks descent. I was wondering what kind of load this thing would > > >>> have managing about 400 nodes. > > >>> Does this thing require a beefy server? > > > >> we manage 320 nodes on a XEN VM based Puppet Master. > > >> 4 GB RAM, 1 Core with 2.3 GHz 80% used. > > >> We have dashboard and puppetmaster running on apache passenger and mysql > > >> running locally. > > > >> hth, > > > >> Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
