[chef] Re: search result growth and issues

[Joe Williams < >]

Anyone have experiences, suggestions, ideas?

Thanks.

-Joe


On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:50:21 -0700
Joe Williams 
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 wrote:

> 
> Over the weekend I experienced an issue where adding a search to the
> rsyslog client cookbook rather than using a statically set rsyslog
> server hostname (http://friendpaste.com/53XqkjYJllP7unEXsAiCnO) caused
> a huge growth in bandwidth
> (http://img245.yfrog.com/i/deployerifeth0day.png/) and load on my chef
> server. I spoke with Adam and Barry on IRC regarding it and it was
> deemed that it was likely something wonky with ferret causing the
> indexes to grow, results appending to themselves iirc. By the time I
> cleaned things out and switched back to my original code the index
> size was 145277. 
> 
> What I am interested in is figuring out if this is something unusual
> with ferret and simply to do my set of circumstances or if this has
> happened to others. Additionally if it's something that I am doing
> wrong that caused the problem in the first place. I understand there
> are changes coming to search but would like to know how to best use
> the current system caveats and all.
> 
> Advice, comments, suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> -Joe
> 
> 


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