Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:32:10 -0500 From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> To: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Josh Tiefenbach <josh@ican.net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf Message-ID: <19981230173210.F828@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.981230141010.23928C-100000@oldnews.quick.net>; from Steven P. Donegan on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:13:20PM -0800 References: <199812302055.MAA05735@dingo.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSI.3.91.981230141010.23928C-100000@oldnews.quick.net>
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On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:13:20PM -0800, Steven P. Donegan wrote:
> I 'vampired' my corporate LDAP directory (roughly 15k entries) and
> populated a FreeBSD and Netscape system with it (FreeBSD was the ldap in
> the ports directory). Both systems were basically identical as far as
> hardware goes. The FreeBSD response to queries was roughly twice as fast
> as the Netscape under NT. Since the database was very small (5 meg or so)
> I would see no reason why this couldn't scale indefinitely... (round
> robin DNS or Cisco load director etc.).
Well, for starters, where are you going to commit your writes? Your assumption
is that the directory won't be written much and is primarily read.
In large scale deployments writes become nearly as important as reads. And
most servers bomb on that (except for the one described in my previous
message).
We have another bake-off coming up and I might be able to share some
experience data. Anyone interested?
Cheers,
Chris
--
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The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
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