Hi, I am having some issues with facter on a couple of servers which have a large number of ip addresses.
Essentially, all my puppet runs time out because facter takes in excess of 25 seconds to populate the facts. Here is the list of interfaces - pretty much each one has an IP assigned. interfaces => eth0,eth1,eth1_1,eth1_2,eth1_3,eth1_4,eth1_5,eth1_6,eth1_7,eth1_8,eth1_9,eth1_10,eth1_11,eth1_12,eth1_13,eth1_14,eth1_15,eth1_16,eth1_17,eth1_18,eth1_19,eth1_20,eth1_21,eth1_22,eth1_23,eth1_24,eth1_25, eth1_26,eth1_27,eth1_28,eth1_29,eth1_30,eth1_31,eth1_32,eth1_33,eth1_34,eth1_35,eth1_36,eth1_37,eth1_38,eth1_39,eth1_40,eth1_41,eth1_42,eth1_43,eth1_44,eth1_45,eth1_46,eth1_47,eth1_48,eth1_49,eth1_50, eth1_51,eth1_52,eth1_53,eth1_54,eth1_55,eth1_56,eth1_57,eth1_58,eth1_59,eth1_60,eth1_61,eth1_62,eth1_63,eth1_64,eth1_65,eth1_66,eth1_67,eth1_68,eth1_69,eth1_70,eth1_71,eth1_72,eth1_73,eth1_74,eth1_75, eth1_76,eth1_77,eth1_78,eth1_79,eth1_80,eth1_81,eth1_82,eth1_83,eth1_84,eth1_85,eth1_86,eth1_87,eth1_88,eth1_89,eth1_90,eth1_91,eth1_92,eth1_93,eth1_94,eth1_95,eth1_96,eth1_97,eth1_98,eth1_99,eth1_100, eth1_101,eth1_102,eth1_103,eth1_104,eth1_105,eth1_106,eth1_107,eth1_108,eth1_109,eth1_110,eth1_111,eth1_112,eth1_113,eth1_114,eth1_115,eth1_116,eth1_117,eth1_118,eth1_119,eth1_120,eth1_121,eth1_122, eth1_123,eth1_124,eth1_125,eth1_126,eth1_127,eth1_128,eth1_129,eth1_130,eth1_131,eth1_132,eth1_133,eth1_134,eth1_135,eth1_136,eth1_137,eth1_138,eth1_139,eth1_140,eth1_141,eth1_142,eth1_143,eth1_144, eth1_145,eth1_146,eth1_147,eth1_148,eth1_149,eth1_150,eth1_151,eth1_152,eth1_153,eth1_154,eth1_155,eth1_156,eth1_157,eth1_158,eth1_159,eth1_160,eth1_161,eth1_162,eth1_163,eth1_164,eth1_165,eth1_166, eth1_167,eth1_168,eth1_169,eth1_170,eth1_171,eth1_172,eth1_173,eth1_174,eth1_175,eth1_176,eth1_177,eth1_178,eth1_179,eth1_180,eth1_181,eth1_182,eth1_183,eth1_184,eth1_185,eth1_186,eth1_187,eth1_188, eth1_189,eth1_190,eth1_191,eth1_192,eth1_193,eth1_194,eth1_195,eth1_196,eth1_197,eth1_198,eth1_199,eth1_200,eth1_201,eth1_202,eth1_203,eth1_204,eth1_205,eth1_206,eth1_207,eth1_208,eth1_209,eth1_210,eth1_211, eth1_212,eth1_213,eth1_214,eth1_215,eth1_216,eth1_217,eth1_218,eth1_219,eth1_220,eth1_221,eth1_222,eth1_223,eth1_224,eth1_225,eth1_226,eth1_227,eth1_228,eth1_229,eth1_230,eth1_231,eth1_232,eth1_233,eth1_234, eth1_235,eth1_236,eth1_237,eth1_238,eth1_239,eth1_240,eth1_241,eth1_242,eth1_243,eth1_244,eth1_245,eth1_246,eth1_247,eth1_248,eth1_249,eth1_250,eth1_251,eth1_252,eth1_253,eth1_254,eth1_255,eth1_256,eth1_257, eth1_258,eth1_259,eth1_260,eth1_261,eth1_262,eth1_263,eth1_264,eth1_265,eth1_266,eth1_267,eth1_268,eth1_269,eth1_270,eth1_271,eth1_272,eth1_273,eth1_274,eth1_275,eth1_276,eth1_277,eth1_278,eth1_279,eth1_280, eth1_281,eth1_282,eth1_283,eth1_284,eth1_285,eth1_286,eth1_287,eth1_288,eth1_289,eth1_290,eth1_291,eth1_292,eth1_293,eth1_294,eth1_295,eth1_296,eth1_297,eth1_298,eth1_299,eth1_300,eth1_301,eth1_302,eth1_303, eth1_304,eth1_305,eth1_306,eth1_307,eth1_308,eth1_309,eth1_310,eth1_311,eth1_312,eth1_313,eth1_314,eth1_315,eth1_316,eth1_317,eth1_318,eth1_319,eth1_320,eth1_321,eth1_322,eth1_323,eth1_324,eth1_325,eth1_326, eth1_327,eth1_328,eth1_329,eth1_330,eth1_331,eth1_332,eth1_333,eth1_334,eth1_335,eth1_336,eth1_337,eth1_338,eth1_339,eth1_340,eth1_341,eth1_342,eth1_343,eth1_344,eth1_345,eth1_346,eth1_347,eth1_348,eth1_349, eth1_350,eth1_351,eth1_352,eth1_353,eth1_354,eth1_355,eth1_356,eth1_357,eth1_358,eth1_359,eth1_360,eth1_361,eth1_362,eth1_363,eth1_364,eth1_365,eth1_366,eth1_367,eth1_368,eth1_369,eth1_370,eth1_371,eth1_372, eth1_373,eth1_374,eth1_375,eth1_376,eth1_377,eth1_378,eth1_379,eth1_380,eth1_381,eth1_382,eth1_383,eth1_384,eth1_385,eth1_386,eth1_387,eth1_388,eth1_389,eth1_390,eth1_391,eth1_392,eth1_393,eth1_394,eth1_395, eth1_396,eth1_397,eth1_398,eth1_399,eth1_400,eth1_401,eth1_402,eth1_403,eth1_404,eth1_405,eth1_406,eth1_407,eth1_408,eth1_409,eth1_410,eth1_411,eth1_412,eth1_413,eth1_414,eth1_415,eth1_416,eth1_417,eth1_418, eth1_419,eth1_420,eth1_421,eth1_422,eth1_423,eth1_424,eth1_425,eth1_426,eth1_427,eth1_428,eth1_429,eth1_430,eth1_431,eth1_432,eth1_433,eth1_434,eth1_435,eth1_436,eth1_437,eth1_438,eth1_439,eth1_440,eth1_441, eth1_442,eth1_443,eth1_444,eth1_445,eth1_446,eth1_447,eth1_448,eth1_449,eth1_450,eth1_451,eth1_452,eth1_453,eth1_454,eth1_455,eth1_456,eth1_457,eth1_458,eth1_459,eth1_460,eth1_461,eth1_462,eth1_463,eth1_464, eth1_465,eth1_466,eth1_467,eth1_468,eth1_469,eth1_470,eth1_471,eth1_472,eth1_473,eth1_474,eth1_475,eth1_476,eth1_477,eth1_478,eth1_479,eth1_480,eth1_481,eth1_482,eth1_483,eth1_484,eth1_485,eth1_486,eth1_487, eth1_488,eth1_489,eth1_490,eth1_491,eth1_492,eth1_493,eth1_494,eth1_495,eth1_496,eth1_497,eth1_498,eth1_499,eth1_500,eth1_501,eth1_502,eth1_503,eth1_504,eth1_505,eth1_506,eth1_507,eth1_508,eth2,eth3,lo,sit0 There are just over 500 entries. I also subsequently have >500 facts for ipaddress_eth1_xxx, netmask_eth1_xxx, network_eth1_xxx, macaddress_eth1_xxx, mtu_eth1_xxx, etc. So, its a very large number of facts, but 25 seconds does seem a little excessive imo. I have the configtimeout parameter set in puppet.conf (agent section) to 180, but that doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm assuming that there is something in the facter code which causes it to take so long, but I'm not a ruby dev and I can't see anything obvious. This is on a CentOS EL5 box, running facter-1.7.3-1.el5 from the puppetlabs yum repo. I'm running puppet 2.7.22 currently, but this is soon to be upgraded to 3. I was wondering whether anyone else had encountered similar issues and whether there were any ideas on how to workaround this. Any help is appreciated. J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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