On Mar 12, 11:21 am, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote: > Puppet doesn't handle a folder with lots of files well. It handles large > files even worse. The standard advice is "Try putting the files in a package > and distributing them using apt." Another common answer is to try combining > exec and rsync. I ended up using apt. Here are the tutorials I used:
The problem is, I -am- using apt! Those files are downloaded and installed using apt, I just want puppet to make sure they are owned by a certain user and group. That's the only thing puppet needs to do. If I do the same in bash: find directory/ | while read file ; do chown user:group "$file" ; done real 0m28.119s user 0m4.064s sys 0m12.725s I can live with overhead from slow ruby, etc etc ... But apparently Puppet is 60x slower than bash for doing the same action! During my investigation for this problem I've seen a lot of people saying things like: "Puppet doesn't handle a folder with lots of files well" 60x times slower isn't really "not handling well". It's crap. I'm a bit baffled by the defeatism I see in the Puppet community concerning Puppet CPU usage. I can't really believe people would call what I am experiencing "not handling well", so I suppose I'm having another, worse, issue concerning my setup? Also the usual suspect for puppet not handling large file collections well seems to be the checksumming. But with that turned of, what's keeping puppet busy? Puppet eats up 30 minutes of CPU time, I see two options: - Puppet is doing something necessary for it's functioning during that time, in which case somebody should know what it is doing. Anybody? - Or the code is gravely flawed and needs to be fixed. Is this a stroke of bad luck, or should I conclude that Puppet isn't production ready? I really can't have this on production machines... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
