puppetd converted to cron job
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 1:46PM EDT
Our configuration manager Puppet has been converted from a daemon service to an every 1/2 hour crontab. We did this to conserve memory usage. Especially with our 64-bit managed virtual private servers, memory is at a premium. Ruby, which Puppet uses, is a memory PIG and is double the size when using 64 bit operating systems.
