I've ran into the same issue, often causing my puppet run to state it's
'Finished' but actually be hanging and not returning back to a shell prompt.
Not to thread-jack, but I am also interested in this answer. Thanks for raising
it!
-Mark
On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Sébastien Barthélémy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I store camera pictures in a git repository, which became quite big:
> 104 GB for the whole (non-bare) repository.
>
> I wanted to fix the files permissions, and thought puppet might be the good
> tool for this (I like its declarative way of simplifying my life).
>
> I gave it a try, with the following statements
>
> node "navi" {
> file {
> "/Users/seb/Pictures/pictures/":
> mode => 0640,
> owner => "seb",
> group => "staff",
> recurse => true,
> ignore => ".git"
> }
> file {
> "/Users/seb/Pictures/pictures/.encfs5/":
> mode => 0600,
> owner => "seb",
> group => "staff",
> recurse => true,
> }
> file {
> "/Users/seb/Pictures/pictures/.git/":
> mode => 0600,
> owner => "seb",
> group => "staff",
> recurse => true,
> }
> file {
> "/Users/seb/Pictures/pictures/.git/hooks/":
> mode => 0700,
> owner => "seb",
> group => "staff",
> recurse => true,
> }
> }
>
> And a call to "sudo puppet -l /tmp/puppet.log ~/statement.pp"
>
> Well, that was 4 hours ago and since then, ruby is eating 100% of my CPU
> (of one core of my 2.26GHz core 2 duo). From the log file, I can tell that
> puppet is indeed fixing perms, at a rate lower than one file per 10 seconds.
>
> I think find, xargs and chmod would take a few minutes at most (will try
> later).
>
> Why is puppet so slow at this job? Is there any way I could improve the speed?
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
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