Yeah, that's too much for recurse. The issue is that Puppet will create an in-memory 'file' object for each file and directory in the entire tree.
It will then try to munge that whole messi into the in-memory catalog. The result is well...memory FAIL. In theory, some of this has been addressed in 2.6, but I haven't tested that portion yet. There was a bit of discussion in the dev mailing list on how to handle this inside Puppet. For now, exec. Trevor On 10/6/10, Angelos Oikonomopoulos <angelos.oikonomopou...@fp-commerce.de> wrote: > On 10/06/2010 03:18 PM, Peter Meier wrote: >>> In any case, by /more/ selective commenting I've deduced that it's the >>> recurse => true in http://paste.lisp.org/display/115229 that triggers >>> this. If I leave it out (or change it to false), puppet applies the >>> catalog as expected. >>> >>> Can someone figure out what the actual issue is? >> >> about how many files are we talking under the hierarchy of the recurse >> file resources? and how big are they? > > 18k+ files in 5k+ directories, adding up to 250MB of disk usage. > > However, as I've mentioned in my original mail, puppetd does not do > anything other than allocate memory. The only system calls it does are > rt_sigprocmask and brk(). Unless puppet loaded the whole thing into > memory before getting stuck (which I did not consider as a possibility), > I don't think the directory contents should make a difference. > > 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. > > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 tvaug...@onyxpoint.com -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- 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.
