[Bug 986973] Re: Facter bug causes puppet to become a zombie

[Robie Basak]

@Chris Abbey

Thanks for pointing this out. I can't seem to find any corresponding
commit related to a fix in 1.7.0 though. I'm looking at
https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commits/1.7.1/lib/facter/memory.rb
for example - given that the original pull request
https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commit/15b857472a75caf9cd596c2b33d285577382293a
involved a change to this file.

I think I've seen this issue myself in Precise. I am running "puppet
apply" from a cronjob, and it occasionally hangs, eventually consuming
all available memory. I am running the whole thing via the timeout
command as a workaround. I think it is reasonable to fix this in Precise
if there is a simple, obviously correct fix, but I can't find anything
to cherry-pick.

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