Puppet users - Aug 2010 - puppetd slow, if master is on another host inside same LAN - newbie question

Hello all,

I am new to puppet and I currently just use it during development - just two
hosts. I only manage distribution of files/permissions with it.

I am wondering why puppetd is running slowly on one of these machines.
Google told me that File with "recurse => true" will make things
run slowly.
I use "recurse => true" :(

Now I want to find out now if the slowdown I am experiencing is
"normal" or
not. It "could" be a network issue . . .

*Some Notes:
*
- One host is running puppetmaster and puppetd, whereas the other one is
running just puppetd.

- A catalog run on the machine running both master/client takes less than 10
seconds. It requires one module more than the other (client-only) host

- A catalog run on the machine running just the client takes around 110
seconds. puppetd is using one core to 100% during the catalog run.
puppetmaster is almost idle.

- Both machines are identical (hardware,OS)

- The computers are equipped with 2 nic''s. One private IP
(192.168.99.X),
one public. The hostnames used for/by puppet are correct, I believe. When I
do ''ping {nameOfServerAsIn/etc/hosts}'' it''s resolved
to the private ip of
that host. Same for the client. The (private) lan is actually a vlan setup
by our hosting company, its speed is 100Mbps, no flow control. Pings are
around 0.5ms

- I deleted the content of vardir=/var/lib/puppet (and then request/sign the
certificate) on the client

- I reinstalled puppetd on the machine, where it was running slow

- Most of the time (especially while investigating this issue) I run puppetd
with --no-daemonize and --debug

- I regularly restart puppetmaster (e.g. before a catalog run), since some
people reported memory problems with it


processor: Intel Xeon
os: ubuntu 10.4 LTS server 64-bit
puppet: 0.25.4 (taken from ubuntu repository)



Best Regards,

Martin

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