On 11-05-22 05:22 AM, Brice Figureau wrote: > On 22/05/11 01:10, Gabriel Filion wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I found out that a puppetmaster I manage is currently not using the >> thin_storeconfigs option and suggested to the other admins that we use >> this in order to reduce puppet run times a little. > > Thin storeconfigs won't reduce your puppet agent run time, only the > master compilation time.
thanks for the precision. still there's a little gain in comparison. I would probably gain more performance in upgrading from 0.25.5 to 2.6.x, but that will come later since it requires more effort. >> Is it recommended to purge the [mysql] database once the option is >> enabled on the puppetmaster? > > I don't think so. The next run with thin_storeconfigs should get rid of > all the extraneous data. great, that's good to know. >> p.s. on another note: I can't grasp the advantage of not using >> thin_storeconfigs. Since we'll be parsing the manifests on every change >> anyway, having all info replicated into a database doesn't seem to bring >> us anything. Is there any use case where not using this option would >> make sense? > > Having all the data in the database can help write inventory > applications. If you don't have such application, thin storeconfig is > way better. On another hand, if you don't use exported > resources/collection, you really don't care about storeconfigs at all > and you should disable it altogether. thanks to everyone for details on this subject. since we currently don't use the extra info (and don't plan to use it in the near future), but do use exported resources (nagios configs, ssh keys), using storeconfigs with thin_storeconfigs will fit just great. -- Gabriel Filion -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
