On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Brice Figureau
<brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/10 19:24, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Brice Figureau
>> <brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/03/10 18:58, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>>> We have puppet 0.24.8 running on multiple EIGHT core 3.16Ghz servers
>>>> with 32Gb of RAM, and in each case puppet is taking longer and longer
>>>> to run, as we have it control more. Currently it's taking up to 20
>>>> minutes to perform a run.
>>>>
>>>> What approaches can I take to significantly reduce the time it takes
>>>> puppet to run? It's ALSO sucking up an inordinate amount of CPU while
>>>> it performs a run. The server is using passenger.
>>>
>>> Where do you experience the issue: on the clients or on the master?
>>> 0.25 highly improved the master performance and file serving.
>>
>> The issue is on the clients. The master seems fine. I'd like to avoid
>> 0.25 for now, as I simply could not get the SSL keys to work with it
>> the last time I tried and I can't risk production seems not being able
>> to receive updates for days on end.
>>
>>>
>>> High cpu usage on the client is highly dependent on what you are
>>> managing (ie most of the time is usually spent in other processes than
>>> puppet, like package manager). Something that also can stress clients is
>>> managing deep file hierarchies.
>>
>> We probably have some deep file hierarchies.
>
> Try to comment those in your manifests, just to see if that is the root
> cause.
> Also make sure you don't have a default like this:
> File { checksum => md5 }
> or other checksum in your non-sourced/non-content file{} resource.
>
> Because that means all your local not sourced file management will have
> to md5 every managed file. If you combine this with deep hierarchies and
> recursion, then you'll have some CPU consumption troubles.
> If you have those recursive not sourced file {} resources, make sure to use:
>
> checksum => undef
>
> in them to at least not md5 everything.
> I think this problem doesn't exist in 0.25.Thanks. Checked and files are NOT being checksummed. Doug. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
