Mark, Are you using webrick or mongrel?
How many clients do you have? Andrew On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:22 PM, James Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Mark D. Nagel wrote: > > We've been having a huge number of problems with puppetmaster seizing up > > on CentOS 4. We started with 0.23.2 and it worked, but the clients were > > leaking memory and we hoped upgrading to 0.24.5 would help. Since then > > we've had far worse problems, primarily that puppetmaster gets into a > > state where it simply stops doing anything and any already connected > > client similarly freezes. Part of the troubleshooting involved > > upgrading ruby, first to a hand-built RPM, then to the RubyWorks RPMs, > > but nothing really improved. I finally decided to revert to 0.23.2 and > > we're still seeing the lockups. I believe replacing ruby with the > > original OS RPM might get us back, but I am also looking at building a > > dedicated VM. Since I have the option to install any OS I want, I was > > hoping folks might have some suggestions on which have been found to > > work best for running puppetmaster in terms of just making sure all the > > parts work properly together as well as simplifying implementation of > > the scalability options (this was painful on CentOS 4). I'm leaning > > toward Debian Etch, but I'm open to anything at this point -- > > suggestions welcome! > > > I use Debian Etch and don't have any performance issues but I only have > 25 hosts under management (mostly test VMs) and don't hammer the master > as much as others do. I should point out that I also run 0.24.x HEAD > rather than a specific release. I would recommend using 0.24.6 though > as a production platform. > > Regards > > James Turnbull > > -- > Author of: > * Pulling Strings with Puppet > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) > * Pro Nagios 2.0 > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) > * Hardening Linux > (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
