Overloaded server

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:42:40 +0200, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de> said:

    > yesterday I tried to FAI setup about 600 nodes using one file/webserver.
Wow. Did you start them all at once? Or with some time (how long)
between each poweron? I would have expected more problems with TFTP.

    > was no problem, I got lots of http download errors (resulting in that
    > famous Broken package, and error 25600 messages).
Maybe the webswerver only allows a certain amount of connections at a
time? How was the CPU load?

    > Is there a way to allow more tolerance (longer timeouts) to the apt 
    > operations?
I don't know.

    > At the moment I try to catch this situation in a chboot hook, 
I don't understand that.

    > but that
    > would deprive me of the correctly downloaded error messages... how much 
    > effort would it be to run the savelog task before the chboot task? (and
    > has there be a reason for the current order?)
Just log into a machine and read /tmp/fai/*.log
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regards Thomas