From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 30 12:11:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26366 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.tor.accglobal.net (mail2.tor.accglobal.net [204.92.55.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26360; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:11:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from josh@ican.net) Received: from staff.tor.acc.ca ([204.92.55.27]) by mail2.tor.accglobal.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 0zvRxI-0005ou-02; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:10:56 -0500 Received: from josh by staff.tor.acc.ca with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zvRxI-0001q2-00; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:10:56 -0500 Message-ID: <19981230151056.00820@ican.net> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:10:56 -0500 From: Josh Tiefenbach To: Mike Smith Cc: Gary Palmer , Brian Behlendorf , The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf References: <16298.915005489@gjp.erols.com> <199812301956.LAA05421@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.74 In-Reply-To: <199812301956.LAA05421@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 11:56:10AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I dont count `LDAP' as a highly-scalable service. Sure, it is one that > > is very supportive of horizontal scaling (throwing more servers at it), > > but from all the indications I've seen/heard its a lot more resource > > intensive than it needs to be, and likely will not be deployed large > > scale where I work for that very reason (we'll grow a distributed > > password system inhouse) > > Have you actually evaulated it, or are you just going on word-of-mouth? We've actually evaluated it, are actually using it, and was one of the ones who described it as being a `pig' to Gary at LISA. For a small-medium size site, the scaling issues arent all that severe. However, once you expand to something like the size of Worldnet or Earthlink's user base, things get really unwieldly, really fast (extrapolations based on my own experiences). Granted, my observations are based on Netscape's implementation on a non-FreeBSD platform, but from what I've seen, the conclusions do extend to the general case. josh -- Josh Tiefenbach - Member - ACC Corps of Internet Engineers - josh@ican.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message