[Puppet Users] Wash 0.20.1 now available (rollup since 0.18.0)

2020-02-06 Thread Puppet Product Updates
Wash 0.20.1 is now available. We've done several small releases that enhanced external plugins. The result is the release of a Wash plugin for Bolt that enables exploring targets in your Bolt inventory via Wash. See https://github.com/puppetlabs/wash/releas

[Puppet Users] PDK 1.16.0 now available

2020-02-06 Thread Puppet Product Updates
Hello! The Puppet Developer Experience team is pleased to announce the latest release of the Puppet Development Kit (PDK), version 1.16.0. Highlights from the 1.16.0 release include: - Added a new "use_litmus" setting for auto-generated Travis CI configurations to make it easier to adopt Puppet

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppetserver performance plummeting a few hours after startup

2020-02-06 Thread Josh Cooper
On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:04 AM Justin Stoller wrote: > Yvan your issue sounds like https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-3647, > do you know if that is fixed now, or has regressed since then? > To add to what Justin said, the state file is only supposed to be loaded/updated by the puppet age

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppetserver performance plummeting a few hours after startup

2020-02-06 Thread Justin Stoller
Yvan your issue sounds like https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-3647, do you know if that is fixed now, or has regressed since then? Your issue does sound like a CodeCache or Metaspace issue. One tunable you didn't mention was "max-active-instances" I've found a bunch of folks that turned t

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetserver performance plummeting a few hours after startup

2020-02-06 Thread KevinR
Hi Martijn, it sounds like you have a sub-optimal combination of: - The amount of JRubies - The total amount of java heap memory for puppetserver - The size of your code base This typically causes the kind of problems you're experiencing. What's happening in a nutshell is that puppet i

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppetserver performance plummeting a few hours after startup

2020-02-06 Thread Matthias Baur
Hey Martijn, this sounds similar to what we experienced after upgrading to Puppetserver 6. Are you running Puppetserver 6? If so, please check the CodeCache settings. See https://puppet.com/docs/puppetserver/6.3/tuning_guide.html#potential-java-args-settings for further information. Regards,

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppetserver performance plummeting a few hours after startup

2020-02-06 Thread Yvan Broccard
Hi, I add the same issue a couple of months ago. The catalog compilation time of the puppet server was taking more and more time for no reason. I added more Puppet server to take the load, but the load on that actual "first" server could not go back to a lower execution time. After some troublesh

[Puppet Users] Puppetserver performance plummeting a few hours after startup

2020-02-06 Thread Martijn Grendelman
Hi, A question about Puppetserver performance. For quite a while now, our primary Puppet server is suffering from severe slowness and high CPU usage. We have tried to tweak its settings, giving it more memory (Xmx = 6 GB at the moment) and toying with the 'max-active-instances' setting to no a