Issue #11044 has been updated by Brice Figureau.
Nigel Kersten wrote: > I have vague, ill-defined concerns around SELinux/AppArmor policies with this > change. > > I noticed the pull was against 2.7.x. Does everyone here really think this > is an appropriate change to put into a point release? Sorry, I don't know a word about SELinux/AppArmor. But if forking proves to be a problem, then a lot of unix executables might have a problem when deployed there :) (note: the puppet agent spends its time to fork and exec, so one more fork shouldn't be a problem IMHO) It is based on 2.7.x but the ticket mention nothing so we're free to target any version :) ---------------------------------------- Feature #11044: Puppet agent should fork when applying the catalog https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11044 Author: Brice Figureau Status: In Topic Branch Pending Review Priority: Normal Assignee: Brice Figureau Category: agent Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: https://github.com/masterzen/puppet/tree/tickets/2.7.x/11044 The current best practice among Puppet users is to run the puppet agent out of cron with --onetime. The rationale is that the puppet agent is a memory hog during a run, but due to the way the ruby interpreter works this memory can never be returned to the OS between runs. Running on cron makes sure puppet doesn't hold this memory for more than the run. A simple solution to this issue is to fork into a child process and do the catalog run. This process would exit at the end of the catalog execution, thus freeing the memory used during the run. -- 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.
