Based on this change, caching catalog time appears to be about 1/10 of the total Catalog retrieval number fairly consistently.
Thanks, Trevor On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Emile MOREL <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Trevor Vaughan a écrit : > >> All, >> >> I've noticed an understandable correlation between catalog size and >> config retrieval time. However, I'm a bit lost as to why it seems so >> slow. >> >> For an example 1.5M catalog: >> >> 24 seconds compile time >> Almost instantaneous transfer time (localhost) >> 40 seconds registered by the puppet client as the 'Config retrieval time' >> > > Which version of Ruby and Puppet ? > > 'Config retrieval time' include the 'caching catalog time' (write catalog on > disk in YAML format). Your catalog is pretty big, so caching could be very > slow. > You can check this by add theses lines in > lib/puppet/indirector/indirection.rb on the agent side: > > + beginning_time = Time.now > Puppet.info "Caching #{self.name} for #{request.key}" > cache.save request(:save, result, *args) > + Puppet.debug "Caching catalog time: #{(Time.now - beginning_time)}" > > >> Why is there almost as much "other stuff" on the client as the >> original compile time and is there anywhere that I can start looking >> to potentially optimize it? >> > > > I have made a patch to add an option for caching catalog in Marshal format > (read and write in this format is very faster); I will make a pull request > for this patch in few time. > > >> I'm perfectly willing to accept that it's just doing a lot and that's >> how long it takes but it seems a bit odd. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Trevor >> >> > > > Émile > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" 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-dev?hl=en. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" 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-dev?hl=en.
