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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How many UNIX engineers are necessary? Post 93676 by RTM on Wednesday 21st of December 2005 09:00:45 AM
Old 12-21-2005
Break a leg? How about just taking a vacation?
There are ratios that you can find on the Internet (such as this article ) which may help in getting a few more folks. Realize it hardly ever comes down to 'the perfect mix'. New projects come up which add more servers than you can handle, folks leave, company downsize both personnel and systems. It all comes down to what the company can afford (or what they can get away with).

I am working on the same computers since 1999 - there were approximately 150 servers when I started and 16 people (we also did user support). Then cut-backs - 150 systems, 8 people (still doing user support). Then user support came down to almost nothing. Then the company was bought out - we ended up with 4 people, 150 servers. Then we were down to 2 people. That's when they started getting rid of servers - down to 40. Also, during all this time we had 24 X 7 coverage on-call. Then the servers and SA's were 'sold' to another company - now we are at 10 sysadmins and 400+ servers (with around 25 of the original servers from 1999).

End result in my opinion - push to have at least 3 people - especially if you have to have 24X7 support.
 

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gearman_client_remove_servers - Gearmand Documentation, http://gearman.info/ SYNOPSIS
#include <libgearman/gearman.h> gearman_return_t gearman_client_add_server(gearman_client_st *client, const char *host, in_port_t port) gearman_return_t gearman_client_add_servers(gearman_client_st *client, const char *servers) void gearman_client_remove_servers(gearman_client_st *client) DESCRIPTION
gearman_client_add_server() will add an additional gearmand server to the list of servers that the client will take work from. gearman_client_remove_servers() will remove all servers from the gearman_client_st. gearman_client_add_servers() takes a list of gearmand servers that will be parsed to provide servers for the client. The format for this is SERVER[:PORT][,SERVER[:PORT]]... Examples of this are:: 10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2,10.0.0.3 localhost234,jobserver2.domain.com:7003,10.0.0.3 RETURN VALUE
gearman_client_add_server() and gearman_client_remove_servers() return gearman_return_t. HOME
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