How to change the Puppet Server memory allocation

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new to the puppet. I don't have too much RAM in my system. How can I change the Puppet Server memory allocation?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

By default, Puppet Server is configured to use 2GB of RAM. However, if you want to experiment with Puppet Server on a VM, you can safely allocate as little as 512MB of memory. To change the Puppet Server memory allocation, you can edit the config file.

• For RHEL or CentOS, open /etc/sysconfig/puppetserver

• For Debian or Ubuntu, open /etc/default/puppetserver

JAVA_ARGS="-Xms512m -Xmx512m"