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

Thomas Bellman
2010-02-24T10:38:13Z

Brice Figureau wrote:

> It would be interesting in finding where (when?) the time is taken.
I''m
> wondering if it comes from the master or puppetd itself. Does running
> with --debug gives more information.

Maybe it does.  I do need to look into this sometime, but I won''t have
the time for yet a couple of weeks.

> I know Ohad found an issue around 0.24.5 about puppetd scanning $PATH to
> find executables each time it needed to run yum/rpm (and possibly other
> executables).
> On his machines this was taking a lot of time (don''t ask why).
> This has been fixed in 0.25, if I remember correctly, but maybe
that''s
> what you''re seeing.

I''m running 0.25.2.  Going from 0.24.8 to 0.25.x did make things go
faster.


	/Bellman