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    Hello,<br>
    <br>
    I'm glad that upgrading helped lower the I/O !<br>
    I didn't realize you were still using 2.4; moving to 2.6 should
    lower the I/O again by changing the Database backend from BDB to
    TokyoCabinet.<br>
    <br>
    As for the warning message, it's because you mounted the
    /var/rudder/cfengine-community/state with mode 775 rather than 770 <br>
    There's a typo in the blogpost, the entry to put in the /etc/fstab
    should be<br>
    <pre># Tmpfs for the CFEngine state backend storage directory
tmpfs           /var/cfengine/state     tmpfs   size=128M,nr_inodes=2k,mode=0770,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime       0       0</pre>
    <br>
    (770 rather than 775)<br>
    <br>
    It should remove your warning message<br>
    <br>
    Nicolas<br>
    <code class="bash plain"></code><code class="bash plain"></code><br>
    <br>
    On 02/10/2013 17:48, Prestasit01 wrote:
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Just for
            information rudder-agent has been updated from 2.4.3 to
            2.4.8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I don’t know
            why but now I/O seems ok since i did that :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D">delete one node which had big I/O (on
            the rudder server)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D">remove the rudder-agent from my node<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D">delete /var/rudder & /opt/rudder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D">install the rudder-agent (2.4.8)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span
                style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
            style="color:#1F497D">accept the node on the rudder server
            and re-affect the node to it last group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I/O has been
            divided by 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I also have
            this message since i’m using RAM Disk :
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">UNTRUSTED:
            State directory /var/rudder/cfengine-community (mode 775)
            was not private!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Is that
            normal ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">BR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:FR">De :</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:FR">
                Prestasit01
                <br>
                <b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 1 octobre 2013 14:41<br>
                <b>À :</b> 'Matthieu CERDA'<br>
                <b>Cc :</b> 'Nicolas Charles';
                <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rudder-users@lists.rudder-project.org">rudder-users@lists.rudder-project.org</a><br>
                <b>Objet :</b> RE: [rudder-users] IO on vmware<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I don’t have
            theses informations,  here is the 3 first results of the
            iodump command :<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
            style="color:#1F497D">while true; do sleep 1; dmesg -c; done
            | perl iodump                                          
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">TASK                  
            PID      TOTAL       READ      WRITE      DIRTY DEVICES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">cf-agent            
            30398      27817           0       27817          0 dm-0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">cf-agent            
            29655      27817           0       27817          0 dm-0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">cf-agent            
            29316       9643            0        9643             0 dm-0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span
              style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR">BR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:FR">De :</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:FR">
                Matthieu CERDA [<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:matthieu.cerda@normation.com">mailto:matthieu.cerda@normation.com</a>]
                <br>
                <b>Envoyé :</b> mardi 1 octobre 2013 12:06<br>
                <b>À :</b> Prestasit01<br>
                <b>Cc :</b> 'Nicolas Charles'; <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:rudder-users@lists.rudder-project.org">
                  rudder-users@lists.rudder-project.org</a><br>
                <b>Objet :</b> Re: [rudder-users] IO on vmware<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">Howdy,<br>
            <br>
            Can you tell us which specific file/place/function is eating
            so much I/O ressources ?<br>
            <br>
            Thanks in advance.<br>
            <br>
            MC<br>
            <br>
            Le 01/10/2013 11:30, Prestasit01 a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It seems to
              work on some nodes. But, not for all.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">On one
              impacted server, I used  iodump (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.geeek.org/post/linux-comment-trouver-les-processus-qui-consomment-de-l-io-992.html">http://www.geeek.org/post/linux-comment-trouver-les-processus-qui-consomment-de-l-io-992.html</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">And it
              reveals that cf-agent is the biggest i/o eater on the
              server. (Ram disk mounted)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR">I hope
                there is one other solution.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:FR">BR</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Nicolas CHARLES</pre>
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