Hi, I very recently upgraded from puppet 0.25.4 to 2.6.8 (both master and all nodes), and I'm now facing serious memory usage issues. On the master, I just added more RAM because I had the resources available (from 2GB to 4GB). But on some nodes with 256MB of RAM, I now see some load peaks and services being affected by high I/O caused by swapping.
My manifests haven't changed, only minor compatibility changes, so the catalogs are performing the same. I do see two major differences : * Update from 0.25.4 to 2.6.8 * Enabled 'report' to start using Dashboard (on a separate server) A quick testing reveals that puppet 2.6.8 on the client nodes does use up more memory than 0.25.4 did. Where is remember seeing 40-50MB of resident memory used (from the top of my head), I now see 80-90MB for the same kind of node. Then with reports enabled this goes up to 110-120MB. I already went hunting down useless or non optimized parts of the catalogs, but apart from 2 nodes were I found "recurse => true" and fixed it (using a different approach, these were nodes other than the one for which I mention the memory usage and had puppetd at 300MB+), I don't see anything more I could optimize, and I have looked in detail, even analyzing a few dot files (the --graph option is really useful!). Two questions : 1) Is it normal that memory usage of puppetd is so much higher just for having the 'report' option enabled? 2) What can I do for low-memory nodes other than switching from puppetd to running puppet from a cron job? (which would help somewhat, but not fix the underlying issues) Any pointers are welcome :-) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) - Linux kernel 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 Load : 0.29 0.27 0.28 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en.
