[chef] Re: Re: search result growth and issues

[Adam Jacob < >]

It's not unique to you, and it's definitely related to Ferret.

We're removing that entire sub-system (in part because of bugs like
these) in the 0.8 release.  In the interim, wiping out the index and
re-building it is your best option.

Adam

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Joe Williams 
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> Anyone have experiences, suggestions, ideas?
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> Thanks.
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> -Joe
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> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:50:21 -0700
> Joe Williams 
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>>
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