Re: [Puppet Users] Agent thundering herd solutions?

2012-04-28 Thread Len Rugen
When we started with splay, over time we found that puppet runs would flock together. If there were network or system load issues causing multiple puppet runs to be slow, they would seem to clear at the same time, then be on the same schedule from then on. As other clients would hit a slow run,

[Puppet Users] Agent thundering herd solutions?

2012-04-27 Thread Ryan Bowlby
I'm hoping to have all the puppet agents run on a 20 minute interval with 480sec on either side. I don't want to launch the agent from cron in order to achieve a level of randomness. Is there a splay/random option that can be included in the sysconfig file or config file? I want to continue

Re: [Puppet Users] Agent thundering herd solutions?

2012-04-27 Thread Nan Liu
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ryan Bowlby rbowlb...@gmail.com wrote: I'm hoping to have all the puppet agents run on a 20 minute interval with 480sec on either side. I don't want to launch the agent from cron in order to achieve a level of randomness. Is there a splay/random option that can