tags 563657 + confirmed thanks I have observed this as well, the puppet masters suddenly having thousands of connections to the PostgreSQL database for stored configurations.
A workaround (or rather, a recommended setup) is to use the puppet queue daemon, which will handle the database connection pool. -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen ooo, shiny!
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