Re: Risks of Frequent yppush in distributed environment?

In article <5rl0mv$a9t@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>, Errol Back-Cunningham <ebc@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > Came across a site that uses HP-UX and has a distributed database > environment - uses Sybase, Oracle and Informix, thousands of users, > numerous platforms and does a yppush every five minutes. > > Does anyone have any idea what (if any) risks are associated with > this? I'm of the opinion that any changes to a live production > environment are inherently risky, and doing a yppush of large > files every 5 minutes seems to me to be excessive. > > Any idea what effects we might see when we encounter network > spikes or problems in mid-push? > > Errol FWIW: Our site has ~1,000 workstations (mostly Sun & HP), and we currently have 4,103 password entries, 18,591 host entries, and 44,103 Email aliases (and 132 YP-Slaves ... probably a few too many there ... but we have a lot of subnets). We don't push every 5 minutes ... but you can image that stuff get pushed all the time. We get the occasional "corrupt" map; where it just seems screwed up ... but this happens rarely and we just push back out and things are fine. I would be curious to hear comments from other folks ... alek