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

Eric Gerlach
2010-02-24T16:31:16Z

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.

Cheers,

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