We're running Puppet via cron instead of daemonized which eliminates these kinds of issues.
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Martin Alfke <tux...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > On 23.09.2011, at 13:01, datastream wrote: > > > Hi, > > Three days ago i notice puppet agent in many node use a lot of > memory(some nodes about 1G),and many of them start at April 23. All system > is debian 6.0.2/amd64(puppet 2.6.5-2,facter 1.5.7 ), everything is up to > date.After restart puppet, in three days, memory usage grows from 56M to > 129M(RES). Is there any workaround way to keep memory usage stable? Or just > use crontab instead. > > We had the same behavior on different platforms (RHEL, OEL, SLES). > Mostly this increased memory usage was due to a memory leak in ruby. > > On some platforms we upgraded ruby to version 1.8.7 patchlevel 334. > On older systems (like RHEL4) we created a daily cronjob which restarts > puppet. > > Martin > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
