Just a quick post with the oneliner of the day.

When you are debugging catalog compilation issues or other puppet performance issues in general, it is good to know exactly which catalogs are slow to compile. Knowing which catalogs are substantially slower than others allows you to focus on those catalogs and the modules they contain.

Just a quick post with the oneliner of the day.

Scenario: after a bacula director restart a couple of jobs were stuck on the FD with message:

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Running Jobs:
Writing: Incremental Backup job node.cluster.company.com JobId=8702 Volume=""
    pool="bacula.director.company.com:pool:default.incremental" device="DefaultFileStorage" (/mnt/bacula/default)
    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
    Files=0 Bytes=0 AveBytes/sec=0 LastBytes/sec=0
FDSocket closed

There were a couple of these jobs that were stuck, preventing all other jobs from running, because those were waiting for a free slot on the FD.