Long execution time due to function [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable().

[pkotov87]

Hello,

Hello everyone,

We have noticed that when puppet runs on Windows under SYSTEM, we experience delays in the DSC modules.

The analysis showed that it is due to the function [System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(). On several servers, this function takes more than 1 minute (twice per run).

This problem is related to the topic:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4825967/environment-setenvironmentvariable-takes-a-long-time-to-set-a-variable-at-user-o

When we switched to the Set-ItemProperty method, all DSC resources ran faster than 1 second.

Could you please switch the code to this method as well, so that the puppet runs are faster?

Regards,
Paul