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

Andrew Heagle
2010-02-24T04:23:47Z

On Monday 22 February 2010 16:17:52 Toby Riddell 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.
>
> *Article is here:
> http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-02/pdfs/bjorgeengen.pdf.
> Note that reading the magazine article requires a subscription, at
> least until Feb 2011 (articles published more than 12 months ago are
> openly available).
>

I have this issue of the magazine as well. The system he used for testing is

an AMD Athlon XP2200, with 1GB RAM running on CentOS5.2 (kernel
2.6.18-92.1.22.el.i686)

The version of CFEngine he is running is 3.0.1b3
(released ??? Jan or Feb ''09, sometime, maybe?)

The version of Puppet he is running is 0.24.7
(released 16-Dec-2008)

So, even though this article was just released, I think it was written a
year
ago. The author said these were the latest stable versions at the time of
writing.

Regards,
Andrew