We had frequent inexplicable daemon crashes on Solaris, but not on RHEL5 (at least not yet) . Given known issues with memory leakage in older Ruby releases Cron seemed more likely to be reliable. We stuck a random wait in the Cron job to spread load on the master and so far it works well. On Sep 24, 2011 7:22 AM, "treydock" <treyd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 5:42 pm, Brian Gupta <brian.gu...@brandorr.com> wrote: >> Over the years many shops have come to start running puppet via cron to >> address memory leaks in earlier versions of Ruby, but the official position >> was that puppet was meant to be run as a continually running service. >> >> I am wondering if the official position has changed. On one hand many if not >> all of the early Ruby issues have been fixed, on the other, the addition of >> mcollective into the mix as a lightweight agent for triggering adhoc puppet >> runs, and other tasks somewhat lowers the requirements for puppet to be run >> as a service. (Or out of cron for that matter). >> >> I understand that in cases where old Ruby versions are for whatever reason >> mandated the answer may be different. >> >> Thanks, >> Brian >> >> -- >> <http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/> > > Could those memory leak problems cause the Puppet daemon to crash with > no logs indicating why? I have about 20 systems all running CentOS 5 > and 6, with Puppet 2.6.9, and I now have to have Zabbix run a "/etc/ > init.d/puppet start" everytime the daemon crashes which is almost on a > daily basis for every client. Would be interested to know of a known > fix or if the only "fix" is the workaround of using Cron. > > Thanks > - Trey > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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. >
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