Puppet users - Sep 2010 - Puppet 2.6.1rc2 eats up a lot of memory

Hi there,

This morning I noticed puppet agent, which was running in daemon mode
every 5 minutes since August 24th, is using 1.4GB of memory on all
hosts.  I was not experiencing that kind of memory usage with Puppet
0.24.  This is what ''top'' reports:

23209 root      20   0 1511m 1.4g 2432 S    0 17.9 337:26.04 puppet

I know it is difficult to find out what''s wrong just with an
observation like this, but I''d be glad to provide more details. 
I''d
prefer not to run puppet in cron.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot

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Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com> writes:
> This morning I noticed puppet agent, which was running in daemon mode every
> 5 minutes since August 24th, is using 1.4GB of memory on all hosts.  I was
> not experiencing that kind of memory usage with Puppet 0.24.  This is what
> ''top'' reports:
>
> 23209 root      20   0 1511m 1.4g 2432 S    0 17.9 337:26.04 puppet
>
> I know it is difficult to find out what''s wrong just with an
observation
> like this, but I''d be glad to provide more details.  I''d
prefer not to run
> puppet in cron.
Heh.  I *did* get that sort of nasty memory leak with the 0.24 series, and
just gave up to using cron, so while I can''t help solve it I can say
that it
isn''t unique to the newer version in my experience.

        Daniel

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Every 5 minutes? You may not be giving it enough time to garbage collect.

Change that to 15 or 30 and see if it makes things better.

Trevor

On 9/2/10, Jean-Baptiste Quenot <jbq@caraldi.com>
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> This morning I noticed puppet agent, which was running in daemon mode
> every 5 minutes since August 24th, is using 1.4GB of memory on all
> hosts.  I was not experiencing that kind of memory usage with Puppet
> 0.24.  This is what ''top'' reports:
>
> 23209 root      20   0 1511m 1.4g 2432 S    0 17.9 337:26.04 puppet
>
> I know it is difficult to find out what''s wrong just with an
> observation like this, but I''d be glad to provide more details. 
I''d
> prefer not to run puppet in cron.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Quenot
>
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