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

tobyriddell
2010-02-23T09:02:57Z

> I''d have to see the article to know for sure if the CPU
utilization
> difference is negligible, but having run puppet for several months now I
> have not seen any performance impact myself.  Most systems have so may
> extra cores nowadays that aren''t doing anything (especially in our
case,
> running puppet during off-hours) it would have to peg multiple CPUs for an
> extended period of time to make a noticeable impact.

From the results in the article, Puppet required between 10x and 56x
more CPU seconds.