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We have 2700 machines using a single Salt master.

You have to tune it or you have the "thundering herd" problem. There are two parameters if I recall:

* a delay between master queries.

* randomization of when to check with the master.

You have to get pretty liberal with these values to scale out, but I assure you, it does work.



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