Not sure if it is the same issue, but we had a lot of timeout errors for catalogue retrieval once we started getting to the 200 nodes/hour point. We changed puppet to be every 2 hours, and all was well, until we had 450 nodes (again, 200/hr) and the problem resurfaced. I take it to be some limitation in the puppet system.
Now we've just finished installing a fully distributed puppet setup, with one frontend and four backend puppetmasters. This should be able to handle 800/hr if the previous test were right, and we can expand horizontally indefinitely. It could just be that you've reached the limit of your puppet infrastructure. I also found that such features as storeconfigs greatly slow things down and reduce how many catalogues/hr can be served (thin storeconfigs is much better). We were advised of this limitation when we put it in, but I had to try it out myself and see... Steve Steve Shipway University of Auckland ITS UNIX Systems Design Lead s.ship...@auckland.ac.nz Ph: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86487 ________________________________________ From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [puppet-users@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Tim Lank [timl...@timlank.com] Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2012 2:59 a.m. To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] 12% of my puppet clients -- Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: execution expired they do run as a daemon pretty much always the same 70 and they don't all run at the same time. Many do, but not all. On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Arnau Bria <listsar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2012 05:35:34 -0700 (PDT) > Tim Lank wrote: > >> how do I troubleshoot this error that occurs for about 12% of the >> puppet clients (~70 out of ~550.) > do they run as daemon? > always the 70 same hosts are failling? > do they run at same time? > > Cheers, > Arnau > > -- > 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. -- 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.
