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

Oliver Schad
2010-02-23T09:11:09Z

Am Tuesday 23 February 2010 schrieb mir tobyriddell:
> > Comparing CPU utilisation is like benchmarking cars by seeing how
> > well they float.
>
> Without wanting to appear flippant, perhaps I want a floating car :)
>
> In my case I need a tool that *if* run during production hours will
> consume very little CPU - we''ve got very stringent requirements
for
> application jitter. It''s likely we''ll end up running
Puppet (or
> whatever) only outside production hours.

Do you know process priorities? It''s very easy to run puppet with this.
Most CPUs has so much idle times that puppet is not a problem. The RAM
usage could be a more significant problem in smaller systems.

Regards
Oli