On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Mark Plaksin wrote:
>
> Brice Figureau <brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> writes:
>
>> On 19/03/09 22:50, Luke Kanies wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've been thinking a lot about file recursion and why it's so darn
>>> complicated, and I think one reason is the recursion happening in
>>> the
>>> same resource type doing the managing. As a result, I've been
>>> thinking of moving the file recursion into a Fileset resource type.
>>>
>>> Currently, the file type generates new file resources during
>>> recursion; this basic model would be the same, except that the
>>> fileset
>>> resource type would be generating files.
>>
>> I've also been thinking a lot about local file recursion lately,
>> but for
>> performance reasons.
>>
>> I understand your idea and what are the benefits of your proposals in
>> term of clarity, code concision and such.
>>
>> Right now, the main performance issue with local recursive file
>> resources is creating one newchild file resource per managed sub
>> file,
>> which in turn will be managed by the system.
>> Ruby seems particularly slow at creating tons of objects, and it uses
>> memory for something that is at really transient.
>
> I'm outta my league as far as the code goes but this *sounds* like
> what
> caused the support case about tidy that I submitted today. We tried
> to
> tidy our puppet reports directory which had 350k files using 1.5G.
> Puppet used more and more RAM until it segfaulted when it hit 2G (I
> assume it was exactly 2G--I wasn't watching that closely but our stats
> say used RAM went up about 2G while puppet was running).
Indeed, that was likely the problem. I was just about to close your
support ticket. :)
--
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
-- Voltaire
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