puppet agent memory useage

[datastream]

Hi,

   Three days ago i notice puppet agent in many node use a lot of memory(some nodes about 1G),and many of them start at April 23.  All system is debian 6.0.2/amd64(puppet 2.6.5-2,facter  1.5.7 ), everything is up to date.After restart puppet, in three days, memory usage grows from 56M to 129M(RES).  Is there any workaround way to keep memory usage stable? Or just use crontab instead.

Thanks,

datastream

[Martin Alfke]

Hi,

On 23.09.2011, at 13:01, datastream wrote:

> Hi,
> Three days ago i notice puppet agent in many node use a lot of memory(some nodes about 1G),and many of them start at April 23. All system is debian 6.0.2/amd64(puppet 2.6.5-2,facter 1.5.7 ), everything is up to date.After restart puppet, in three days, memory usage grows from 56M to 129M(RES). Is there any workaround way to keep memory usage stable? Or just use crontab instead.

We had the same behavior on different platforms (RHEL, OEL, SLES).
Mostly this increased memory usage was due to a memory leak in ruby.

On some platforms we upgraded ruby to version 1.8.7 patchlevel 334.
On older systems (like RHEL4) we created a daily cronjob which restarts puppet.

Martin

[Aaron Grewell]

We're running Puppet via cron instead of daemonized which eliminates these kinds of issues.

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