This is huge. Are you serving a lot of big files or templates? On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Angelos Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> Hello all, > > I'm playing with a new puppet setup (2.6.1 on debian stable with ruby 1.8) > and I've run into a problem with puppetd consuming ridiculous amounts of > memory. > > My setup isn't that complex (apache2 configuration and a few other > packages/services), but puppetd will force the machine into swapping. It > seems to be CPU bound; if I run strace -e '!rt_sigprocmask' on it, I can see > that the only system calls it makes are brk() calls. The system ends up > swapping heavily and of course puppetd never makes progress. (On this VM with > 512MB of RAM, puppetd ends up w/ an RSS that oscillates around 450MB, while > having 596MB mapped). > > It seems like there's a superlinear algorithm or some infinite loop that's > triggered by my configuration. FWIW, the catalog for this client is 3145 > lines long and the server compiles it in 0.21 seconds. > > Now, this client was able to run the catalog just fine a few days ago, so I'm > going to concentrate on my last set of changes, but I'm reporting this here > as this seems like an obvious bug to me. Perhaps others have run into it > before? > > Also, is there some mechanism to monitor what puppetd is doing that will > provide me with more information than --debug? > > Thanks, > Aggelos > > -- > 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.
