Puppet

Here is a patch (against master) to improve storeconfigs speed.

The idea is that what takes time in the rails code right now is not the time taken to issue the SQL statements but the time to create all the Active Record rails object. The resource parameters and resource tags now issue directly SQL requests (still through rails, though) and gets back arrays of hash containing column values, instead of creating Active Records objects. The other benefit is the number of requests issued is now greatly decreased and not dependent anymore on the number of resources for a given host.

Facts: On a 562 resource node, with a mysql database: * 0.24.7: info: Stored catalog for corp2.daysofwonder.com in 4.05 seconds notice: Compiled catalog for corp2.daysofwonder.com in 6.31 seconds

• 0.24.7 with the patch: info: Stored catalog for corp2.daysofwonder.com in 1.39 seconds notice: Compiled catalog for corp2.daysofwonder.com in 3.80 seconds

Patch against master available here: http://github.com/masterzen/puppet/tree/features/storeconfigs-opt

Patch against 0.24.7, courtesy of Luke: http://github.com/lak/puppet/tree/features/0.24.7/storeconfigs-opt