[Puppet Users] Puppetmaster 2.7.18-5

Hi

I am running Puppet version 2.7.18-5 with around ~ 100 nodes syncing with
the server with the defaults of half an hour. Is it normal for the
puppetmaster service to take around ~ *3GB* of RAM.

# cat /etc/debian_version
7.1
# dpkg --list | grep -i puppet
ii puppet-common 2.7.18-5 all
    Centralized configuration management
ii puppetmaster 2.7.18-5 all
    Centralized configuration management - master startup and compatibility
scripts
ii puppetmaster-common 2.7.18-5 all
    Puppet master common scripts
ii vim-puppet 2.7.18-5 all
    syntax highlighting for puppet manifests in vim

# top | head -n7
top - 05:51:16 up 16:45, 2 users, load average: 1.00, 0.99, 0.87
Tasks: 101 total, 2 running, 99 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 6.1 us, 0.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 93.8 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si,
  0.0 st
KiB Mem: 6117052 total, 5807676 used, 309376 free, 69100 buffers
KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 used, 0 free, 2348596 cached

   PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
# top | grep -i puppet
  4161 puppet 20 0 *3198m* 3.0g 3256 R 98.6 52.1 183:16.28 puppet
  4161 puppet 20 0 *3198m* 3.0g 3256 R 99.8 52.1 183:19.28 puppet
~# free -h
                     total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 5.8G 5.5G *330M* 0B 67M 2.2G
-/+ buffers/cache: 3.2G 2.6G
Swap: 0B 0B 0B

Now let me stop my puppetmaster to show that memory is in fact getting
freed up.

# /etc/init.d/puppetmaster stop
[ ok ] Stopping puppet master.
# ps aux | grep -i puppet
root 9438 0.0 0.0 7828 892 pts/1 S+ 05:52 0:00 grep -i
puppet
# free -h
                    total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 5.8G 2.5G *3.3G * 0B 67M 2.2G
-/+ buffers/cache: 193M 5.6G
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
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