On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:26 AM, X4T wrote:

>
> Hello Together,
>
> i am trying to use puppet to transfer a file (10MB) through the puppet
> file service (puppet://server/files/filename) inside of a file
> directive. The problem is that when the puppet client starts to
> transfer
> the file, the puppetmasterd starts to reserve the whole memory of my
> system including the swap until it finally dies. My question is, is
> there any filesize restriction inside of the filetransfer mechanism of
> the puppetmasterd and why does the puppetmasterd behave like this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Sebastian

Hi Sebastian,

With 0.24.8 your best bet is to move large files like this via other  
means (ie rysnc, ftp, nfs, etc) than directly though Puppet.  With  
0.25 using REST this issue of memory consumption will be much much less.


-L

--
Larry Ludwig
Reductive Labs


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