Issue #11044 has been updated by Brice Figureau.
Daniel Pittman wrote: > It sounds like this is generally satisfactory to everyone, if we target Telly? > > This is more or less the last chance to speak up because, frankly, it seems > like a good change to me. I can't see it harming things, and it certainly > helps more effective garbage collection on the agent. > > Bryce, if we accept this would you be willing to rebase on current master and > resubmit the code? Yes, I'll do that during the week. ---------------------------------------- Feature #11044: Puppet agent should fork when applying the catalog https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11044 Author: Brice Figureau Status: Needs Decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Daniel Pittman Category: agent Target version: Telly 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.
