[Puppet Users] Intermittent errors for resource dependencies

2011-05-19 Thread tobyriddell
Hi all, I've got a bit of a strange one here. I'm seeing intermittent errors for missing resource dependencies. I'm building up a Puppet config. for a new server, making changes gradually and running the puppet agent multiple times by hand to apply the changes. The behaviour I see is that the erro

[Puppet Users] Re: Intermittent errors for resource dependencies

2011-05-19 Thread tobyriddell
Thanks for the explanation - nice to know there's a good reason for it. On May 19, 2:01 pm, jcbollinger wrote: > On May 19, 2:23 am, tobyriddell wrote: > > > I've got a bit of a strange one here. I'm seeing intermittent errors > > for missing resource depende

[Puppet Users] Re: Intermittent errors for resource dependencies

2011-05-19 Thread tobyriddell
rministic. On May 19, 3:04 pm, tobyriddell wrote: > Thanks for the explanation - nice to know there's a good reason for > it. > > On May 19, 2:01 pm, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On May 19, 2:23 am, tobyriddell wrote: > > > > I've got a bit of a st

[Puppet Users] Re: Intermittent errors for resource dependencies

2011-05-20 Thread tobyriddell
ss' class so that would explain why the error appears in the first place (thanks for helping me track that down). But I still don't have a grasp on why it's intermittent... Toby On May 20, 1:05 am, Nan Liu wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:23 AM, tobyriddell wrote: > &

[Puppet Users] How to tailor config. files for groups of hosts?

2009-09-21 Thread tobyriddell
Hi, I'm trying to figure out the best way to generate tailored config. files for several sets of hosts. Here's a concrete example with a sudoers file: class hostgroups { $devhosts = [ "devhost1", "devhost2" ] $prodhosts = [ "prodhost1", "prodhost2" ] $ukhosts = $devhosts + $prodhosts

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

2010-02-23 Thread tobyriddell
> Comparing CPU utilisation is like benchmarking cars by seeing how well > they float. Without wanting to appear flippant, perhaps I want a floating car :) In my case I need a tool that *if* run during production hours will consume very little CPU - we've got very stringent requirements for appli

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

2010-02-23 Thread tobyriddell
> I'd have to see the article to know for sure if the CPU utilization > difference is negligible, but having run puppet for several months now I > have not seen any performance impact myself.  Most systems have so may > extra cores nowadays that aren't doing anything (especially in our case, > runn

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

2010-02-23 Thread tobyriddell
> Out of curiosity, which part of puppet is causing this load? If it's > the puppetmaster, well then, that shouldn't be a big problem. I'd > recommend a dedicated puppetmaster in most setups anyway. Or when > puppet is actually applying a whole manifest instead of just checking > if things are set

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

2010-02-23 Thread tobyriddell
> Also, this doesn't seem to be CPU load, just time.  It took puppet longer > to apply a manifest than CFengine, I'm assuming they made the same changes > on both systems and had both CFengine and puppet correct the same > differences.  Wall clocks != higher load. The difference was found to be in

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

2010-02-24 Thread tobyriddell
Thanks everyone for their input. I'll press on with Puppet and if I run into performance issues then I'll bring them up in this forum. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups