Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:10:56 -0500 From: Josh Tiefenbach <josh@ican.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf Message-ID: <19981230151056.00820@ican.net> In-Reply-To: <199812301956.LAA05421@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 11:56:10AM -0800 References: <16298.915005489@gjp.erols.com> <199812301956.LAA05421@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > 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
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