4.1.0a1 Failover sync speed

[Michael Kaegler]

Up until now, we've had static assignments for every machine in our 
network. Don't ask, it was the requirement! Having multiple servers 
in this environment without failover was fine.

Now that we're moving to pools, we're needing to configure failover 
for them. And so we decided to start testing the latest (4.1.0a1, 
despite the 'a') so that we could get the inevitable move to the 4.0 
branch over with during the off-semester.

We loaded it up on a pair of test servers, and found the initial sync 
took over 4 hours! We do have 140 subnets (mostly /21s), but still it 
should go much faster than that. The load averages on the test 
servers were high (4.00 - 6.00) but the interfaces were only pushing 
60kbit.

We can't keep our dhcp servers down for the 4 hour initial sync. I'm 
also worried about working problems and having to restart this 4-hour 
process as part of the debug steps!

Is this unreasonable? Should it take 4 hours? Am I being overly 
aggressive in getting to 4.0?

TIA,
-porkchop
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Michael "Porkchop" Kaegler, Sr. Network Analyst
(845) 575-3061 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY