On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Kenneth Holter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello list. > > > We're running puppet version 0.24.4, and are having trouble with > puppetmaster running really slow. The puppetmaster has been running fine > until about a couple of day ago, and for no apparent reason it just lost > performance. I've also noticed that the puppet daemon on many of our clients > a dying. Both master and clients run very slow, but I'm not sure if the > client runs slow because of the master. > > The symptoms I've seen are that running puppet on a client often takes a > very long time (one of the nodes used close to 800 seconds to run the > config), or even times out. Once in a while, however, things seems back to > normal, and the run is executed in a few seconds. On the server side the > time between "Compiled configuration for ..." messages takes a very long > time (often several minutes), in contrast to normal operations where > configurations get compiled quite frequently. > > What puzzles me is that there are no signs of resource starvation on the > server - we have low CPU and memory utilization. So there shouldn't be, as > far as I can see, any hardware limitations causing puppetmaster to run slow. > > I don't have the exact number of active puppet nodes, but it should be well > under 100 nodes. > > Other than that, I can mention that "storeconfig" is set to "true" > in puppet.conf.
<snip> This is the telling point for me. I ran into the same problem myself. The storeconfig database has some terrible issues. I wish I could tell you how to solve this; we ended up just abandoning stored configs. Others have had better luck. One thing you might try is removing stale entries from your stored config database. There's a script floating around out there... --Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
