Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:55:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Josh Tiefenbach <josh@ican.net> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NOW/MOSIX/Beowulf Message-ID: <199812302055.MAA05735@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:10:56 EST." <19981230151056.00820@ican.net>
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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. Cool; thanks for the review. Anyone else using either the Netscape server or experimenting with the OpenLDAP implementation are invited to speak up; this sort of input's really useful. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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