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| author | Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com> | 2013-09-01 11:03:38 -0500 |
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| committer | Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com> | 2013-09-01 11:03:38 -0500 |
| commit | cc9237d2be14c96201ea2410cfac21ec34caf8e6 (patch) | |
| tree | f74d7a973098e4b8076fa65469c5b6474e6583f6 /doc | |
| parent | f6a142aed6756449974ab38bacf98d47e29dda3e (diff) | |
| parent | 8a36d9dccc6c4aed460763fb20083877c77a34cd (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'maint'
Signed-off-by: Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com>
Conflicts:
src/lib/Bcfg2/Client/Tools/__init__.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/BuiltinCore.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Metadata.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/NagiosGen.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/Plugins/Probes.py
src/lib/Bcfg2/Server/SSLServer.py
tools/README
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt index a7cdfad2d..8b317552f 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt @@ -428,17 +428,18 @@ Benefits to this include: * Much lower memory usage by the ``bcfg2-server`` process. * Much faster ``Packages.Refresh`` behavior. * More accurate dependency resolution. +* Better use of multiple processors/cores. Drawbacks include: -* More disk I/O. In some cases, you may have to raise the open file +* Resolution of package dependencies is slower and more + resource-intensive. At times it can be much slower, particularly + after running ``Packages.Refresh``. +* More disk I/O. This can be alleviated by putting + ``/var/lib/bcfg2/Packages/cache`` on tmpfs, but that offsets the + lower memory usage. In some cases, you may have to raise the open file limit for the user who runs your Bcfg2 server process, particularly if you have a lot of repositories. -* Resolution of package dependencies is slower in some cases, - particularly after running ``Packages.Refresh``. -* If you have a very large number of clients using a very small number - of repositories, using native yum libraries may actually increase - memory usage. Configuring the Yum Helper -------------------------- |