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

Marc Fournier
2010-02-26T10:14:06Z

> 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.

The author also mentions that: "In Puppet a server component is
mandatory [...]" (probably he missed out the "puppet"
interpreter) but
that "Cfengine’s configuration agent is independent of a server
component".

I suppose the benchmarks were made on a machine running puppetmaster +
puppetd, but cfengine was run in stand-alone mode. Probably puppet would
have performed a bit better if the manifests would have been run in
stand-alone mode too.

Marc