[Pkg-puppet-devel] Splitting puppetq?

[Russ Allbery]

micah anderson <micah at riseup.net> writes:
> Digant C Kasundra <digant at stanford.edu> wrote:

>> Absolutely.  We commissioned the puppetq work specifically for the
>> purpose of having storeconfigs running on a different server than the
>> puppetmasters.  When we turned on storeconfigs on the puppetmasters, we
>> found that the puppetmasters could no longer handle the load and would
>> take a long time compiling manifests, sometimes so long that they would
>> timeout.

> I'm curious if you recall at what the tipping point for this was. I
> haven't seen this problem with a couple hundred nodes and one
> puppetmaster with storeconfigs turned on. I assume I will hit it at some
> point, but dont know when that will be.

We have about 500 nodes and we knocked it over dead, but we also have to
restart our (0.24) Puppet masters every four hours because of the massive
memory leaks somewhere in Ruby, and it's not clear that other people are
running into that either.  I'm not sure exactly why we seem to have more
problems there than others.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>