Disable fact caching

[Knut Ahlers]

Hi there,

is there any (undocumented) option to disable fact caching on client machines except of writing an kill-job for the cache file?

Cheers,

  Knut

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[John Randolph]

we cache facts because our puppet fact dump was, at least traditionally, very slow. is this not the case for your install?

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[Knut Ahlers]

Hm it requires some seconds depending on the client machine but nothing I would label as a blocker…

[John Randolph]

Ok, it took forever here for a while so we implemented the caching.
I'll look at the code and see if there's a quick fix.

John Randolph -- Google New York

[Justin McWilliams]

I believe a quick fix would be to set the constant to 0:

DEFAULT_FACTER_CACHE_TIME = datetime.timedelta(hours=3)

https://code.google.com/p/simian/source/browse/trunk/src/simian/munki/flight_common.py#72

Or even minutes=10 or something low, so it's at least cached between preflight and postflight, but not across Munki executions.

[John Randolph]

I'm pre-caffeination, but yeah that looks fine to me, setting max
cache age to 0 will cause a real facter run each time.