On 24/01/11 20:57, Patrick wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Daniel Piddock wrote:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I'm attempting to mirror a folder containing a few large files from an
>> NFS location to the local drive. Subsequent runs take a lot longer than
>> I'd have expected, after the first run.
>>
>> Using the following block a puppet apply run is currently taking 30 seconds:
>> file { '/usr/share/target':
>> source => 'file:///home/archive/source/',
>> recurse => true,
>> backup => false,
>> checksum => mtime,
>> }
>>
>> There are 42 files taking up 870MB. I'd have thought stating the files
>> in the source and target, comparing to each other (or a cache internal
>> to puppet as it doesn't set the mtime on files) would be a lot faster
>> than it is.
>>
>> I was curious about what puppet was up to, so ran it in strace. It's
>> reading every file every run, multiple times! Reads the target twice,
>> then the source twice before reading the target again. Considering I
>> wasn't expecting it to open any of the files at all this is total over kill.
>>
>> Is this horribly bugged or have I got a magic incantation that's causing
>> this behaviour? strace is rather verbose and I haven't exactly read all
>> 80MB of the dump line by line.
>>
>> Is there a neater way of just mirroring a folder based on modification
>> time? I suppose the easiest route would be an exec of rsync, at least I
>> have control over that.
>>
>> I'm using Puppet 2.6.4.
>>
>> Dan
>> I especially like the way Ruby searches for and loads the md5 library
>> every time it's used. What a performant language.
> This sounds like a bug to me. I do know that I never use recurse=true except
> when neccisary myself because it's too slow. In your position, I would
> replace it with an rsync and file a bug.
>
> Also, does it behave this badly when no changes are made or just when making
> changes
This happens every single run, source and target have not changed state.
I tried stracing when just a single file is copied. Puppet is still
reading both source and target when checksum => mtime is used, although
just the once.
I think there might be two bugs here - checksum does not work with
timestamps and recurse is horribly broken.
Puppet issues 6003 and 6004 raised.
Dan
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