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facter package

  1. Bug #986973
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 986973

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote : Re: Facter bug causes puppet to become a zombie

@Chris Abbey

Thanks for pointing this out. I can't seem to find any corresponding commit related to a fix in 1.7.0 though. I'm looking at https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commits/1.7.1/lib/facter/memory.rb for example - given that the original pull request https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commit/15b857472a75caf9cd596c2b33d285577382293a involved a change to this file.

I think I've seen this issue myself in Precise. I am running "puppet apply" from a cronjob, and it occasionally hangs, eventually consuming all available memory. I am running the whole thing via the timeout command as a workaround. I think it is reasonable to fix this in Precise if there is a simple, obviously correct fix, but I can't find anything to cherry-pick.