Here's how I do it, which IMHO works really well in most situations and is
much simpler. No external scripts, no custom functions. We take the IP
address of the system, strip out the periods, and modulo 30 it:
$cron_time1= generate('/usr/bin/env', 'sh', '-c', "printf $(($(echo
$::ipaddress | a
One other thing to look at is how many nodes are hitting your server at once.
If you're not using the ip_to_cron function from the Cron Patterns
page, you might want to take a look at it.
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Cron_Patterns
Some people are also using MCollective to to a
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 04:56 -0800, Antonio Xanxess wrote:
> I have a problem with my Puppet server, the server is overloaded and
> processes need to add half of my farm nodes yet!
> The server is hosted on a blade with the following characteristics:
> Processors: 8 cores
> Memory Ram: 12 Gb
> Opera
Hi everyone,
I have a problem with my Puppet server, the server is overloaded and
processes need to add half of my farm nodes yet!
The server is hosted on a blade with the following characteristics:
Processors: 8 cores
Memory Ram: 12 Gb
Operating System: Debian Squeeze
Version of parcel:
2.7.1-1 ~
