Issue #11044 has been updated by Josh Cooper. Status changed from Needs Decision to Merged - Pending Release Assignee deleted (Brice Figureau) Target version changed from 3.x to 3.0.0
Nevermind, this was merged in 3.0rc1 in <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/fa4a1d9> <pre> Run the agent in a child process during catalog application The idea is that during catalog application the puppet heap might grow quite large. And unfortunately in MRI the heap never decreases, so you're stuck with a large process doing nothing and not using the memory it allocated until the next run. The solution is to fork and do the puppet run in a child process. At the end of the catalog run, the process exits freeing memory to the OS until the next run. This is not supported on Windows </pre> ---------------------------------------- Feature #11044: Puppet agent should fork when applying the catalog https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11044#change-69304 Author: Brice Figureau Status: Merged - Pending Release Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: agent Target version: 3.0.0 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.
