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PE seems to be generating infra_serials and inventory.txt tmpfiles in `/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/ssl/ca` on failed startups
eg, infra_serials17726936828251417880tmp and inventory.txt3749405387556217369tmp
Almost all of them are 0 size, but a few are not.
Are the 0-size ones safe to clean up?
Are the non-0 sized ones safe to clean up? :slightly_smiling_face:

interesting. The Internets claim the `inventory.txt` file is non-load bearing and could be wiped entirely. Not quite ready to do that yet though :slightly_smiling_face:
It's been fun finding that we have 4.8 _million_ entries and our file is 563MB.

That is probably generating some memory pressure :sweat_smile:

Those orphaned `*tmp` files are probably a symptom of the large inventory.txt file. While removing `inventory.txt` is recoverable, you may want to retain a copy for an audit trail. Recommendation:

• Stop puppetserver
• Archive the current inventory off-box as your historical record.
• Replace inventory.txt with an empty file owned pe-puppet:pe-puppet, mode 0644.
• Delete the orphan *tmp files (the inventory.txt*tmp / infra_serials*tmp matchers from before).
• Start puppetserver


pruned in our dev environment and reduced startup from 81sec to 33sec
will do the same for staging during a quiet time tonight, it was taking 536sec to startup (18gb JVM, 9 jrubies)

staging startup went from 536 sec -&gt;  19sec :laughing:
_nice_.