Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

Brice Figureau
2010-02-24T19:32:06Z

On 24/02/10 17:31, Eric Gerlach wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:37:15PM -0600, James Cammarata wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +0000, Toby Riddell
<toby.riddell@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today.
There''s an
>>> article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To
>>> abbreviate massively: Puppet requires much more CPU than Cfengine
when
>>> both verifying and fixing configuration.
>>
>> I''m not really surprised by this, puppet is written in Ruby
(an interpreted
>> language) vs CFengine which is written in C.
>
> Has anyone tried puppet with Ruby 1.9?  It''s supposed to be a lot
faster than
> 1.8.  Haven''t tested it myself, though.

It''s possible to run puppet on JRuby, which I expect might behave
better
than ruby 1.8 (especially because of the native threading of the JVM and
its superior GC).
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