Re: [Xen-users] streaming server on a virtual machine.

[Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cool.

How do you multithread a script?

Is it just a matter of launching them in the back ground and going on  
to the next host w/o waiting for the script to complete?
SAs wanna know :)

- Brian

On Sep 28, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:

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> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> ] On Behalf Of Brian Krusic
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 10:40 AM
> To: John Madden
> Cc: Grant McWilliams; xen-users; Mike Wright
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] streaming server on a virtual machine.
>
> Thats a great question.
>
> I provide my own repos which sync to Centos/Plus/RPMForge/Gitco upon
> my choosing, normally once a month.
>
> I then test any new updates before going live with a foreach loop,
> yumming hosts in my list.
>
> I did the same is an MS$ env and am unsure of a better way.  But I've
> never managed more then 1,000 nodes.
>
> Any one care to share there methodology?
>
> - Brian
> ---------------------------------
>
> This is precisely what I do, and it works very well.  I have  
> 'multithreaded' my script so that several systems update in  
> parallel, so that it doesn't take -forever-.  I've also broken it  
> out into a couple processes for clustered environments (I have a lot  
> of web clusters) so that only one web server in a cluster ever  
> updates at once.
> In essence, my methodology for handling updates to domUs matches my  
> general attitude about them: treat them like normal machines, and  
> use the oldschool voodoo handed down from our fore-admins to manage  
> them.  This wheel has already been built.  :-)
> Best Regards,
> Nathan Eisenberg
>
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