Proposed Extreme changes.

['john heasley']

Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:34:11PM -0700, Alex Bochannek:
> One thing I need to know is what the largest number of devices is anybody
> uses Rancid for. Tens? Hundreds? Considering how long it can take for telnet
> to terminate an unsuccessful connection (on Solaris), I am bit worried about
> scalability.

have seen as many as 700.  bin/control_rancid:PAR_COUNT=5 could be raised
to process more devices concurrently.  that should really be a bin/env
knob; which i'll add to the todo list.

> Thanks.
> 
> Alex Bochannek 
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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
> Sent:	Thursday, September 27, 2001 11:59 AM
> To:	Alex Bochannek
> Cc:	'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
> Subject:	Re: Proposed Extreme changes.
> 
> i havent had a chance to look at these.  didnt want you to think we
> were ignoring you.
> 
> Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:47:13PM -0700, Alex Bochannek:
> > I am finally getting around working on Rancid for Extreme and had some
> > problems getting it to work. Here are my proposed changes: