Issue #2691 has been updated by Christian Hofstaedtler.

You could - as a possible workaround - try to set Apache's Timeout to something 
larger than 300 seconds and see if that "helps" (i.e. make the "Broken Pipe" 
error go away).
Is it slow too with puppetmasterd instead of Passenger or is it only slow with 
Passenger?
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Bug #2691: "Could not retrieve catalog: HTTP-Error: 500 Internal Server Error" 
with tagged exported resources
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2691

Author: Marc Fournier
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: 
Category: 
Target version: 
Affected version: 0.25.1rc1
Keywords: 
Branch: 


The problem happens with this sort of manifest (in fact, this simple example 
works fine):
<pre>
node a {
    @@file { "/tmp/foo": content => "fjskfjs\n", tag => "foofile", }
}
node b {
    File <<| tag == 'foofile' |>>
}
</pre>

In my case, I have a about 20 nodes, each one having:
<pre>
@@nagios_host    { $fqdn: tag => "nagiosserver.domain.tld", ... }
@@nagios_service { "a":   tag => "nagiosserver.domain.tld", ... }
@@nagios_service { "b":   tag => "nagiosserver.domain.tld", ... }
@@nagios_service { "c":   tag => "nagiosserver.domain.tld", ... }
@@nagios_service { "d":   tag => "nagiosserver.domain.tld", ... }
@@nagios_service { "e":   tag => "nagiosserver.domain.tld", ... }
</pre>

I suspect the problem occurs when many exported resources are involved (if 20x5 
can be considered many).

The problem happens when running puppet on a node containing:
<pre>
Nagios_host <<| tag == "nagiosserver.domain.tld" |>>
Nagios_service <<| tag == nagiosserver.domain.tld" |>>
</pre>

On the puppetmaster, one ruby process consumes 100% CPU during a few minutes, 
then the client says:
<pre>
err: Could not call puppetmaster.getconfig: #<RuntimeError: HTTP-Error: 500 
Internal Server Error>
err: Could not retrieve catalog: HTTP-Error: 500 Internal Server Error
</pre>

the ruby process continues running at 100%, and after a while we get this 
backtrace:
<pre>
[ pid=3338 file=ext/apache2/Hooks.cpp:547 time=2009-10-01 11:16:46.189 ]:
  Backend process 3465 did not return a valid HTTP response. It returned no 
data.
*** Exception Errno::EPIPE in Passenger RequestHandler (Broken pipe) (process 
3465):
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:83:in
 `write'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:83:in
 `process_request'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:203:in
 `main_loop'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:110:in
 `run'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:67:in
 `spawn_application'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:181:in
 `safe_fork'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:60:in
 `spawn_application'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:45:in
 `spawn_application'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:158:in
 `spawn_application'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:282:in
 `handle_spawn_application'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:337:in
 `__send__'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:337:in
 `main_loop'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:187:in
 `start_synchronously'
        from 
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/bin/passenger-spawn-server:61
</pre>

The problem can be produced with 0.24.8 and 0.25.0 clients, and 0.25.0 as well 
as 0.25.1rc1 server, with passenger and these gems installed:

activerecord (2.3.2)
activesupport (2.3.2)
fastthread (1.0.7)
passenger (2.2.2)
rack (1.0.0)
rake (0.8.7)

It should be noted that this works fine:
<pre>
Nagios_host <<| |>>
Nagios_service <<| |>>
</pre>

I've also noticed the following error from time to time on 0.25.0. But I'm 
unable to reproduce it, and never seen it with 0.25.1rc1, so I'm not sure it's 
related:
<pre>
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings/file_setting.rb:19:in `group='
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings/setting.rb:44:in `send'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings/setting.rb:44:in `initialize'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings/setting.rb:38:in `each'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings/setting.rb:38:in `initialize'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:398:in `new'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:398:in `newsetting'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:533:in `setdefaults'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:518:in `each'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:518:in `setdefaults'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/reports/store.rb:15:in `mkclientdir'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/reports/store.rb:35:in `process'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/handler/report.rb:66:in `process'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/handler/report.rb:59:in `each'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/handler/report.rb:59:in `process'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/handler/report.rb:33:in `report'
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `to_proc'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/processor.rb:52:in `call'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/processor.rb:52:in `protect_service'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/processor.rb:85:in `setup_processor'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/server.rb:336:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/server.rb:336:in `dispatch'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/server.rb:323:in `each'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/server.rb:323:in `dispatch'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/server.rb:366:in `call_method'
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xmlrpc/server.rb:378:in `handle'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/xmlrpc/processor.rb:44:in `process'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/http/rack/xmlrpc.rb:35:in `process'
/srv/puppet/lib/puppet/network/http/rack.rb:48:in `call'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/request_handler.rb:81:in
 `process_request'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_request_handler.rb:203:in
 `main_loop'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:110:in
 `run'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:67:in
 `spawn_application'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb:181:in
 `safe_fork'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:60:in
 `spawn_application'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/rack/application_spawner.rb:45:in
 `spawn_application'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:158:in
 `spawn_application'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/spawn_manager.rb:282:in
 `handle_spawn_application'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:337:in
 `__send__'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:337:in
 `main_loop'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/lib/phusion_passenger/abstract_server.rb:187:in
 `start_synchronously'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.2.2/bin/passenger-spawn-server:61
</pre>



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