Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet considered harmful?

2011-12-04 Thread Marek Dohojda
Like most things with Computers... it depends. If you use it just to control single files and such puppet uses very little in terms of resources; however if you are planning on checking directory with recursive, well, don't. I wouldn't worry however, in most cases your Java app is not going to

Re: [Puppet Users] Running puppet agent and master from cron jobs

2011-12-04 Thread Gabriel Filion
On 11-12-04 11:53 AM, Christopher Wood wrote: >> 1. Run `puppet agent --onetime` every 30 minutes on agents > Definitely use fdqn_rand (see the function list) in the cron job minutes to > spread these out. yep, we use a bash-version of this random time thing. You'll quickly notice that you need t

Re: [Puppet Users] kernel 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 will cork your puppet clients

2011-12-04 Thread Jo Rhett
This is all covered in the bug details. Please track it there. They've already spun new kernels for testing, not sure when the new kernels will spin down into normal releases. On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Len Rugen wrote: > Is the kernel going to be fixed or is it now broken as designed? > On D

Re: [Puppet Users] Running puppet agent and master from cron jobs

2011-12-04 Thread Christopher Wood
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:51:28AM -0800, bel wrote: > I see that there's a thread from September asking a very similar > question ("Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a > service?"). I want to ask what should I take into account when making > this decision? > > Just some background

[Puppet Users] Running puppet agent and master from cron jobs

2011-12-04 Thread bel
I see that there's a thread from September asking a very similar question ("Official puppetlabs position on cron vs puppet as a service?"). I want to ask what should I take into account when making this decision? Just some background: - All my servers are Red Hat or CentOS - We have about 5 serve