On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:41:50PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > Nigel, As you've said, the time chosen for the run cycle will be > consistent. All of these settings are already set -- this isn't a > question of how to change how often to run, it's how to affect the chosen > runtime?
I thought the chosen run time was selected on the agent. It sounds like you'll have to reconfigure the agent to have it decide differently. So far your options seem to be, from reading this thread: -run via puppetized fqdn_rand() cron -use splay (if you don't mind living without puppet kick) -change the runinterval for each puppet agent There's possibly other cheap/dirty ways like having a cron job restart the puppet agent at an interval shorter than when they converge, or setting an at job to do it, or similar. Perhaps you could use a cronjob on the puppet master to check logs for run times and kick the groups that are teaming up. And so forth. > I've got an awful lot of systems (> 100) which have decided to all roll at > 28 and 58 minutes after the hour. How can I rebalance them? > On Nov 3, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Jo Rhett <[1]jrh...@netconsonance.com> > wrote: > > For a long time it appeared that run cycles were fairly balanced -- a > few every 30 seconds over the 30 minute period. Right now I'm seeing > more than 100 systems hit in the same minute: 28 and 58 minutes after > the hour. Is there some way to alter the spread of these systems back > to even out the load? > > Or passenger options which could limit the effects of this? > > In your puppet.conf agent block: > # How often puppet agent applies the client configuration; in > seconds. > # Note that a runinterval of 0 means "run continuously" rather than > # "never run." If you want puppet agent to never run, you should > start > # it with the `--no-client` option. > # The default value is '1800'. > runinterval = 1800 > ... > # The maximum time to delay before runs. Defaults to being the same > as the > # run interval. > # The default value is '$runinterval'. > splaylimit = 1800 > ... > # Whether to sleep for a pseudo-random (but consistent) amount of > time before > # a run. > splay = false > > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source > and other randomness > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [2]puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [3]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [4]http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- > Nigel Kersten > Product Manager, Puppet Labs > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [5]puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [6]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > [7]http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and > other randomness > > -- > 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. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:jrh...@netconsonance.com > 2. mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com > 3. mailto:puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 4. http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en > 5. mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com > 6. mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 7. 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.
