Hi jcbollinger , I have added 1 GB more RAM on server and now my free RAM is more than 2 GB.Also started puppet ,puppetmaster,puppet-dashboard services.
But nodes are still showing unresponsive.Any idea? Thanks, Mamta On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:31 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>wrote: > > > On Monday, April 1, 2013 6:15:54 AM UTC-5, Mamta Garg wrote: >> >> HI jcbollinger , >> >> Thanks for your reply! >> >> I have attached my master machine memory infor screenshot.Could you guide >> me with that ,whats is wrong? >> I am using one master at a time. > > > > I don't see a smoking gun, but I find it suspicious that you have so > little swap. I generally want to see at least as much swap as total RAM, > and I usually configure 1.5x or sometimes even 2x RAM. The 2G total RAM in > your box is perhaps a bit light, too, but not so much so that I would > expect to see problems for a single puppetmaster process. Unless the box > is providing other memory-hungry services as well. > > Do check the puppetmaster process's memory usage, as you may find that > puppet needs up to as much free memory as its then-current usage to > successfully fork(), which it does whenever it runs an external program. > (That additional allocation is released when the external program exits.) > It is not uncommon for the master to use hundreds of MB of memory. > > For Puppet to fail (only) occasionally with the kind of error you report, > you are probably are running right on the edge of the master's capacity. > In that case, increasing swap would probably make the errors cease, at > least for the time being, but you will see a slowdown somewhere whenever > the system needs to page anything out. Possibly little enough that you > don't notice. Alternatively, you can probably make the error go away by > adding RAM. You may be able to make it go away temporarily by restarting > the puppetmaster service (or apache/passenger of that's the way you're > running it, etc.), but then the issue is likely to reappear fairly soon. > > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Thanks and Regards, Mamta Garg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
