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Duncan Hill

More options Jun 25 2008, 12:31 pm

From: "Duncan Hill" <bajand...@googlemail.com>

Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:31:52 +0100

Local: Wed, Jun 25 2008 12:31 pm

Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: using inetd/xinetd with puppetrun?

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2008/6/25 Evan Hisey <ehi...@gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Joel Krauska <jkrau...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> I'm equally frustrated.

>> I'm about to cron this:
>> perl -e "sleep int(rand(20));" ; puppetd --onetime

>> Where 20 (in seconds) is closer to 25min, and the cron runs on the half hour..

>> What is the puppetd client holding on to in between runs?
>> Shouldn't it just be a scheduler anyway?

> How are you guess running puppetd? It has almost no footprint on any
> of the servers or workstations. Even the puppetmasterd is not really
> using much in the way of resource when idle. I am using 2.24.4 on
> CentOS boxes with the EPEL puppet rpms.

The original poster said it was chewing 100MB+ on a 256 MB VM.
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
22533 root 15 0 141m 61m 2696 S 0 6.1 9:12.38 puppetd

On a smaller machine, that is a significant chunk of RAM.

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