[Beowulf] Re: Beowulf Digest, Vol 62, Issue 27

[Chris Samuel]

----- "James Cuff" <james_cuff at harvard.edu> wrote:

> So anyway, just recently at the advice from some of our Sr.
> sysadmins, we started out over here in the other Cambridge
> with this thing called puppet, in our HPC environment...

We run Puppet on our standard service boxes (not HPC)
and found that Puppet could OOM the box (small VM's
usually) if you ran it as a daemon so now we just run
it occasionally out of cron.

But yes, it's a very nice little tool..

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