This is a fantastic idea! Any progress on this? On Sunday, March 4, 2012 10:53:23 PM UTC-5, Jon Forrest wrote: > > As many learning Puppet for the first time, the fact that the > order of actions is undefined unless specific metaparameters > like 'require' are used. Fine. > > This got me to thinking. The GNU make program has the "-j" > option, which allows make to start more than one action > in parallel if the actions are at the same dependency level. > I've used this option on a 48-core machine to great benefit. > > So, why can't there be a similar option in the puppet agent? > I can easily imagine how this could substantially reduce the > length of time for a puppet run. > > (The make "-j" option allows an optional numeric value, which, if > given, is the maximum number of actions that can be run > in parallel. If no numeric is given, then there's no limit > to the number of parallel actions). > > I did a quick review of the Puppet manual but I didn't see > anything like this. Am I missing something? Is this a good > idea? > > Cordially, > Jon Forrest > >
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