[Puppet Users] Re: yet another memory abuse - puppetd

Peter Meier
2008-07-28T14:32:44Z

Hi

> maybe someone could shed some light on this for me.
>
> when puppetd is idle - i.e. in between puppet runs, it basically only waits
> and maybe in some configuration listen on a tcp port for puppet run.
>
> in all of my machines i have something similar to:
> 6142 root      15   0    0  28:20.21  4.9  *318m* *287m* 2580 S puppetd
>
> is there anything that I am missing here? (I know that its not all
resident,
> some is shared etc but still).
>
> I''m really thinking about moving to cron and dumping the puppetrun
> services...

http://reductivelabs.com/redmine/issues/show/1395

if you can provide additional infos and check if andrew''s patch might
improve the situation I think everybody would be happy.

greets pete