[Puppet Users] File resources: using source much slower than content

It is natural that 'source' would be slower than 'content', even much
slower. With 'content', the target file contents are embedded in the
catalog, whereas with 'source', the agent makes a separate request to the
server for each file. Network requests are relatively slow in most
environments. I would recommend using 'content' for small files wherever
possible. To that end, it may be easier to use the file() function instead
the template() function when the content you want to serve is completely
static.

With that said, I don't know why the timing would be so strikingly
different in 3.1 than it was in 2.7, if everything else is the same. If no
one has an answer to that, and you want to troubleshoot it, then I would
suggest starting by identifying whether the delay is at the master or at
the agent. You should be able to tell by checking the file service
request-to-response turnaround times in the master's logs.


John

Hi Tim,
Sounds like reverse DNS lookups are failing:
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18573<https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/18573#change-87186>.
Can you update with your webrick or passenger info and ruby version?