Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-26 Thread Marc Fournier
> The version of CFEngine he is running is 3.0.1b3 > (released ??? Jan or Feb '09, sometime, maybe?) > > The version of Puppet he is running is 0.24.7 > (released 16-Dec-2008) > > So, even though this article was just released, I think it was > written a year > ago. The author said these were th

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-24 Thread Brice Figureau
On 24/02/10 17:31, Eric Gerlach wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:37:15PM -0600, James Cammarata wrote: >> >> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +, Toby Riddell >> wrote: >>> I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an >>> article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and C

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-24 Thread Craig Miskell
Eric Gerlach wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:37:15PM -0600, James Cammarata wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +, Toby Riddell wrote: I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To abbreviate massively:

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-24 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:37:15PM -0600, James Cammarata wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +, Toby Riddell > wrote: > > I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an > > article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To > > abbreviate massively: Puppe

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-23 Thread James Turnbull
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/02/10 8:23 PM, Andrew Heagle wrote: > The version of CFEngine he is running is 3.0.1b3 > (released ??? Jan or Feb '09, sometime, maybe?) > > The version of Puppet he is running is 0.24.7 > (released 16-Dec-2008) It's also important to note the

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Heagle
On Monday 22 February 2010 16:17:52 Toby Riddell wrote: > I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an > article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To > abbreviate massively: Puppet requires much more CPU than Cfengine when > both verifying and fixing configu

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-23 Thread Aurelien Degremont
Hello When testing puppet scalability, we noticed that one bottleneck is CPU usage on puppetmaster node. To scale up the number of concurrent puppet clients running in the same time, we tweaked our puppet configuration in order to reduce puppetmaster work, mainly reducing its CPU work, and so s

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 22 February 2010 16:37, James Cammarata wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +, Toby Riddell > wrote: >> I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an >> article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To >> abbreviate massively: Puppet requires much mo

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-22 Thread Julian Simpson
> > I'm not really surprised by this, puppet is written in Ruby (an interpreted > language) vs CFengine which is written in C. I've used both, and I'd > gladly trade a little CPU performance for the stability gains offered by > puppet. CFengine is notoriously buggy in implementation, something I

Re: [Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-22 Thread James Cammarata
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:52 +, Toby Riddell wrote: > I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an > article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To > abbreviate massively: Puppet requires much more CPU than Cfengine when > both verifying and fixing confi

[Puppet Users] Magazine article comparing CPU usage of Puppet vs. Cfengine

2010-02-22 Thread Toby Riddell
I received my copy of ;login (the Usenix magazine) today. There's an article* comparing CPU utilisation of Puppet and Cfengine. To abbreviate massively: Puppet requires much more CPU than Cfengine when both verifying and fixing configuration. I'm in the early days of implementing Puppet and this h