Hi, that may be a red herring. Whatever is causing your contention may well be the action taken *after* what is logged at that moment.
I advise to either * watch the `ps auxwf` output for child processes or failing that * emply `strace -f` to try and determine what is going on, roughly HTH, Felix On 02/28/2014 03:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Debug: Prefetching apt resources for package > Debug: Executing '/usr/bin/dpkg-query-W--showformat'${Status} ${Package} > ${Version} :DESC: ${Description}\n:DESC:\n'' > > What happens when this comes up in the log is that server 1 stands there > until it runs out of ram and starts killing processes (i.e. standard OOM > behaviour) while server 2 takes about half a minute to complete (with > the puppet agent hogging quite a bit of ram and 100% CPU), but then > actually completes properly. A detail regarding the execution time is > that the execution time reported to Puppet Dashboard when this happens > isn't even near the time it actually takes to run the command (for > example, for server 2, it is reporting times somewhere around 10-15 sec). > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/534E7A6B.9070005%40alumni.tu-berlin.de. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
