Hi, that may be a red herring. Whatever is causing your contention may well be the action taken *after* what is logged at that moment.
I advise to either * watch the `ps auxwf` output for child processes or failing that * emply `strace -f` to try and determine what is going on, roughly HTH, Felix On 02/28/2014 03:03 PM, alan...@op5.com wrote: > Debug: Prefetching apt resources for package > Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/dpkg-query-W--showformat'${Status} ${Package} > ${Version} :DESC: ${Description}\n:DESC:\n'' > > What happens when this comes up in the log is that server 1 stands there > until it runs out of ram and starts killing processes (i.e. standard OOM > behaviour) while server 2 takes about half a minute to complete (with > the puppet agent hogging quite a bit of ram and 100% CPU), but then > actually completes properly. A detail regarding the execution time is > that the execution time reported to Puppet Dashboard when this happens > isn't even near the time it actually takes to run the command (for > example, for server 2, it is reporting times somewhere around 10-15 sec). > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/534E7A6B.9070005%40alumni.tu-berlin.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.