[Puppet Users] Very slow puppet agent runs on empty/noop manifests (v3.2.1)

On 23 May 2013 17:16, Martin Langhoff wrote:

This is a VM with 1GB RAM and almost nothing running on it. It takes
10s to read a manifest that defines one node, one class, and checks
whether puppet package is installed...

Where is all the time going? Is something wrong?

Details -

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.4 (Final)

# vmstat
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system--
-----cpu-----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us
sy id wa st
0 0 0 705996 32180 207476 0 0 2 2 16 4 0
0 100 0 0

# time ruby -e 'puts "1"'
1
real 0m0.012s
user 0m0.003s
sys 0m0.007s

Just shy of 6s to display help!

# time puppet help | head -n1
Usage: puppet <subcommand> [options] <action> [options]

real 0m5.990s
user 0m0.764s
sys 0m0.212s

And 10s to do nothing!
# time puppet apply --noop --verbose manifests/site.pp
Info: Applying configuration version '1369325470'
Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.29 seconds

real 0m10.226s
user 0m3.065s
sys 0m1.981s

[root@rl01m-puppet puppet]# rpm -qi puppet
Name : puppet Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 3.2.1 Vendor: Puppet Labs
Release : 1.el6 Build Date: Wed 22 May
2013 12:29:05 PM CDT
Install Date: Wed 22 May 2013 04:09:54 PM CDT Build Host:
verne-builder-1.delivery.puppetlabs.net
Group : System Environment/Base Source RPM:
puppet-3.2.1-1.el6.src.rpm
Size : 3239292 License: ASL 2.0
Signature : RSA/SHA1, Wed 22 May 2013 02:14:33 PM CDT, Key ID
1054b7a24bd6ec30
URL : http://puppetlabs.com

[root@rl01m-puppet puppet]# rpm -qi ruby
Name : ruby Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 1.8.7.352 Vendor: CentOS
Release : 10.el6_4 Build Date: Fri 08 Mar
2013 08:27:43 AM CST
Install Date: Wed 22 May 2013 04:09:51 PM CDT Build Host:
c6b10.bsys.dev.centos.org
Group : Development/Languages Source RPM:
ruby-1.8.7.352-10.el6_4.src.rpm
Size : 1897682 License: Ruby or GPLv2
Signature : RSA/SHA1, Fri 08 Mar 2013 10:50:23 AM CST, Key ID
0946fca2c105b9de
Packager : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>
URL : http://www.ruby-lang.org/


cheers,



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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Keith Burdis wrote:
Are you running into the Socket.gethostbyname(Socket.gethostname) issue
pointed out by Wil Cooley a few days ago?

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/puppet-dev/z09Nkk18tRE

If so there is potential /etc/hosts change in that thread that might sort
out your issue.