Puppet users - Jan 2013 - Do total node definitions impact performance?

We have about 500 nodes on our puppet infrastructure, many of the definitions
are very long and redundant with each other. We are going to start working on
cleaning and consolidation, but I''m curious: does the total number of
node definitions have any impact on catalog generation?

We have geographically distributed puppet masters, and nodes pinned specific
masters. Would I see any performance benefit by only pushing the relevant nodes
to the individual masters?

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On Friday, January 25, 2013, Mason Turner wrote:
> We have about 500 nodes on our puppet infrastructure, many of the
> definitions are very long and redundant with each other. We are going to
> start working on cleaning and consolidation, but I''m curious: does
the
> total number of node definitions have any impact on catalog generation?

Are they all in site.pp or are you doing something like ''include
nodes/*''?
The latter used to slow things down though I''m not sure if
that''s still the
case. What Puppet version are you running?

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> We have geographically distributed puppet masters, and nodes pinned
> specific masters. Would I see any performance benefit by only pushing the
> relevant nodes to the individual masters?
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On Jan 25, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryan@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Friday, January 25, 2013, Mason Turner wrote:
>> We have about 500 nodes on our puppet infrastructure, many of the
definitions are very long and redundant with each other. We are going to start
working on cleaning and consolidation, but I''m curious: does the total
number of node definitions have any impact on catalog generation?
> 
> Are they all in site.pp or are you doing something like ''include
nodes/*''? The latter used to slow things down though I''m not
sure if that''s still the case. What Puppet version are you running?
Includes. 2.7.16
>> 
>> We have geographically distributed puppet masters, and nodes pinned
specific masters. Would I see any performance benefit by only pushing the
relevant nodes to the individual masters?
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