Puppet

My goal is to sync an entire directory structure required for deploying an application: we currently use rsync for this.

My testing manifest reads (with some obfuscation):

class policy::solaris { file { “/destination/destdir”:

    source => "puppet:///policy/test/sourcedir",
    recurse => true

} }

This copies the contents of modules/policy/files/test/sourcedir/ into /destination/destdir/ on my target system. The sourcedir/ has 5282 files underneath it.

The puppetd on my destination system starts chewing through this, but eventually starts filling the log with the like messages:

err: //Node[default]/baseclass/policy::solaris/File[/destination/destdir/foo/bar/include]: Failed to retrieve current state of resource: Too many open files – socket(2) Could not describe /policy/test/sourcedir/foo/bar/include: Too many open files – socket(2) err: Could not call fileserver.list: #<Errno::EMFILE: Too many open files – socket(2)>

No messages are seen on the puppetmasterd log, except that it is sending the files to the destination puppetd.

Both systems are Solaris 10 Update 6 on x86.