I haven't had any problems with the client stability. But, I'm also not using the 'file' type to copy files over the 'puppet://' protocol.
It might be related, but it might not. Are you hitting the OOM killer? It sounds like you might be. I *would* expect Apache and MySQL to die like this (and I've seen it) if they're hitting resource limits and the OS decides that they need to die. The last time I saw it with Apache was due to a badly written plugin that ate all of the memory in the system which caused Apache to be nuked. Trevor On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 03:19, Jean-Baptiste Quenot <cara...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2009/4/6 Mike Renfro <ren...@tntech.edu>: > >> I'd normally expect that to work, but I just have puppet keep cron >> running, and have a periodic cron job that checks if puppet has died, >> and if so, restarts it: > > Interesting, but why would you expect Puppet to die? Would you expect > Apache, Nginx or worse MySQL to die randomly like this? > > I'm a Puppet user since nearly two years now, and in the big picture > of my web servers I find that puppetd is not the most reliable piece > of software. It dies every day, and my colleagues complain about this > regularly because their installed packages are not uptodate as they > expect. So I have to start it again and again on all machines. Is > Puppetd dying because of network problems? I believe so, but I think > it should be fixed instead of finding creative ways to keep puppetd > running, especially since I request it to run every 5 minutes as a > daemon. > > Is anyone using puppetd in a WAN setup with default Webrick server > successfully? Shall I switch the HTTP server to Mongrel to gain > reliability? I'll test this setup. But if puppetd fails on the > client side, I'm not certain that changing the server's HTTP server > would actually prevent the client to fail at all... > > I'm a bit eager with this, and I'm really looking forward to find a > solution, community-wise. Your comments are welcome. > -- > Jean-Baptiste Quenot > http://jbq.caraldi.com/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
