Mark D. Nagel wrote: > We've been having a huge number of problems with puppetmaster seizing up > on CentOS 4. We started with 0.23.2 and it worked, but the clients were > leaking memory and we hoped upgrading to 0.24.5 would help. Since then > we've had far worse problems, primarily that puppetmaster gets into a > state where it simply stops doing anything and any already connected > client similarly freezes. Part of the troubleshooting involved > upgrading ruby, first to a hand-built RPM, then to the RubyWorks RPMs, > but nothing really improved. I finally decided to revert to 0.23.2 and > we're still seeing the lockups. I believe replacing ruby with the > original OS RPM might get us back, but I am also looking at building a > dedicated VM. Since I have the option to install any OS I want, I was > hoping folks might have some suggestions on which have been found to > work best for running puppetmaster in terms of just making sure all the > parts work properly together as well as simplifying implementation of > the scalability options (this was painful on CentOS 4). I'm leaning > toward Debian Etch, but I'm open to anything at this point -- > suggestions welcome! > I use Debian Etch and don't have any performance issues but I only have 25 hosts under management (mostly test VMs) and don't hammer the master as much as others do. I should point out that I also run 0.24.x HEAD rather than a specific release. I would recommend using 0.24.6 though as a production platform.
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