dhcpd performance?

Carl Karsten carl at personnelware.com
Tue May 1 21:34:46 UTC 2007


Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>> define "all at once."  (a reoccurring question that you will see in the archives)
>>
>> "when 1000 people show up for work"  is much different than "wake on lan" at 8am.
>>
>> /me thinks of 1000 voip streams.  The dhcp server will not be the problem.  use
>> what you got, get the system up, fix the problems.
>>
> 
> This is what I'm hearing... upgrading the master phone switch will
> cause all the phones hanging off said switch to reboot.  Yes, it would
> make sense to NOT upgrade all the swtiches at once.  But, I can't
> control what the phone folks do and don't do.
> 

Oh, this is a one time server upgrade thing?  It will add .0001% of time to the 
down time ;)

No problem.

The eathernet collision retry delays will pretty much sort out the perceived 
contention problem.

Carl K


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