On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:57:37 -0800 (PST), Tim Stoop <tim.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 feb, 10:02, tobyriddell <toby.ridd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> From the results in the article, Puppet required between 10x and 56x >> more CPU seconds. > > Out of curiosity, which part of puppet is causing this load? If it's > the puppetmaster, well then, that shouldn't be a big problem. I'd > recommend a dedicated puppetmaster in most setups anyway. Or when > puppet is actually applying a whole manifest instead of just checking > if things are set correctly? I've looked at our trending and I don't > see any noticeable additional load on the machines, at least. Unless > of course I'm rebuilding the entire server. But I don't care about > puppet load at such times. A little nuance for us non-subscribers to > Usenix would be welcome :)
Also, this doesn't seem to be CPU load, just time. It took puppet longer to apply a manifest than CFengine, I'm assuming they made the same changes on both systems and had both CFengine and puppet correct the same differences. Wall clocks != higher load. In my opinion, this is a non-issue, since normally if you've got any major number of systems you'll either be triggering runs in parallel, or they'll be updating automatically on their own environment wide. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
