[chef-dev] CHEF-2346 solr maxfieldlength round 2

[Bryan McLellan < >]

There was some earlier mailing list discussion on the topic [1] but we
need another look at CHEF-2346 [2], because even if we increase the
limit in the configuration file that we ship, the user still needs to
install this configuration manually and, I believe, reindex. This is a
lot to ask in a point release, but we'd also like to help people out,
so we need a better solution.

For starters, we should emit a warning on chef-solr startup if this
value is less than say 50,000 (?) then recommend its increase and
point to the ticket for further information.

Is there a light-weight way to determine the size of objects currently
in use? Could we error/fatal if an object is within a certain distance
of the limit?

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Bryan McLellan | opscode | senior systems administrator
(c) 206.607.7108 | (t) @btmspox | (b) http://blog.loftninjas.org

[1] http://lists.opscode.com/sympa/arc/chef-dev/2011-08/msg00038.html
[2] http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2346