[chef] Re: resource usage for chef server

[Adam Jacob <adam@opscode.com>]

It's going to depend on what you are serving, and how.  If you are
really memory constrained, I would start looking at running a pair of
thins and chef-client via cron.

Adam

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Joe Van Dyk<joe@fixieconsulting.com> wrote:
> Should I be expected to run chef on a 256 megabyte server, if that's all
> it's doing?
>
> PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>
>
> 23665 couchdb   20   0  340m  40m 1300 S    0 15.9  38:16.26 beam.smp
>
>
> 23881 chef      20   0  111m  38m 1788 S    0 14.9   2:04.86 ruby
>
>
> 4848 root      20   0 86952  26m 1776 S    0 10.4  28:59.37 chef-client
>
>
> 3615 chef      20   0 86340  23m 1192 S    0  9.2  54:01.36 chef-indexer
>
>
> 23884 chef      20   0  109m  14m 1684 S    0  5.8   0:10.02 ruby
>
>
> 3617 root      20   0 69164 9852  992 S    0  3.8  17:08.68 stompserver
>
>
> 7272 www-data  20   0  726m 5632 2056 S    0  2.1  19:06.03 apache2
>
>
> 7373 www-data  20   0  726m 5592 2052 S    0  2.1  19:03.68 apache2
>
> It's swapping a bit.



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