On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Brice Figureau <brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote: > > Hi Douglas, > > First, can you bottom post? > It makes way easier to read (long) threads. > > On 15/11/09 22:50, Douglas Garstang wrote: >> I doubt that is my problem. I'm running this in a test environment, >> and I'm doing a full 'service puppet restart' every single time. I've >> seen this memory problem occur on the very first run of puppet after >> the restart. >> >> I read about the ruby memory leak, but I don't see where I can get a >> ruby 1.8.7 RPM from. :( > > If you're just on a test system and you want to rule out ruby as the > culprit of the memory issue, I think you can just either compile your > own 1.8.7 locally (ie you don't need to install ruby in your system > paths), or even use the ruby enterprise edition installer which setups > most of the thing for you easily. > Once done, you'll know if the problem is puppet or ruby itself. > And if it turns out to be puppet, please file a bug report with the more > information you can, including manifest, versions... >
So, I downloaded, compiled, and installed ruby 1.9. --- SAME PROBLEM --- Ruby/Puppet uses up approx 1.4Gb of memory before I run out. Doug >> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Avi Miller<avi.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Douglas, >>> >>> Douglas Garstang wrote: >>>> Actually, I just noticed that puppetd was using approx 1.5Gb of memory >>>> before it barfed. Nice... >>> >>> If you're running on RHEL/CentOS, there is a known issue with the Ruby >>> that ships with that distribution that causes memory leaks. I have a >>> cronjob that restarts puppetd each night to ensure that it doesn't use >>> too much memory. >>> >>> An alternative is to not run puppetd as a service, but rather as a >>> cronjob with the --no-daemonize and --onetime command-line options. That >>> way, puppetd never remains resident. >>> >>> Hope that helps, >>> Avi > > > -- > Brice Figureau > My Blog: http://www.masterzen.fr/ > > > > > -- Regards, Douglas Garstang http://www.linkedin.com/in/garstang Email: doug.garst...@gmail.com Cell: +1-805-340-5627 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
