Steven, Thanks for sharing your findings. I've created ticket #4553 to either add some README documentation about this or somehow setup a default for log size. Matt
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4553 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Steven L. Seed <slseed1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I found the root cause of my problem. After running of about 1 month using > the development environment my log file grew to over 24GB. I had no idea > this log file was even there since it's in a less than standard location > (/opt/puppet-dashboard/log/development.log). I switched to using the > production environment and that initially helped along with purging about > 3GB of my report data from the database, but ultimately, the very large log > file was impacting things as well. > > Igal Koshevoy wrote: > > On 08/04/2010 01:50 PM, Steven L. Seed wrote: > > > I've been noticing my puppet dashboard is taking longer and longer to > load up in my we browser the longer I've used it. I have roughly 1300 > nodes being managed by puppet. It's almost as if there is too much > data for it to process. I have about 1 month worth of data in my mysql > database now. I've recently upgraded to version 1.0.3 but it hasn't > improved the performance. It's taking typically around 60 - 90 seconds > for the page to load...the browser sits waiting for a response from > the server. > > > Some things that you can do to make Dashboard run faster: > 1. Run it in `production` mode, which is explained further in > application's README. > 2. Remove older reports from the database, e.g. keep only the last 15 > days: `rake RAILS_ENV=production reports:prune upto=15 unit=day` > 3. Run the Dashboard and its database on the same machine, and give them > enough CPU cycles and RAM to run comfortably. > > If these don't help, it's likely that you're running into performance > problems with how Dashboard is currently implemented. Resolving these > issues is a high priority because it affects sites like yours with many > nodes and reports and is on the schedule for the next major release. > > -igal > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
