Issue #8643 has been updated by Jeff McCune.
In my experience, managing a tree of this size will cause the in-memory puppet catalog to grow so large it overflows core memory and begins to swap to disk. ---------------------------------------- Bug #8643: Tree of files = day+ to xfer (note in documentation) https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8643 Author: Jeff Blaine Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: I understand the CM conceptual stance on this from Puppetlabs (or so I think), and I understand that "make a package" is the answer, but I wanted to report this and suggest that the documentation for the 'file' resource is updated to reflect reality so that people (like me) are able to accurately set expectations for the product depending on their intended usage. I've spent ~1-2 hours now with this, looking at strace output, etc. scp -r -p host:/tree-of-14thousand_files_totalling_147MB takes 1 minute to complete (between the same hosts used for the puppet run below, and tested several times, even during the puppet run). Puppet 2.6.4 takes a full day (or more, I cancelled it) to do the same with that content, averaging 4-6 minutes per file for some unknown reason. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
