On Sep 24, 9:42 pm, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > >
Could you share how you did the random wait? I may have to switch to a cron job with how often my daemons are crashing and having to be restarted by Zabbix. 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.
