[chef] Re: Webui edit action extremelly slow

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

There's an open ticket about this: http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-861

It certainly appears the webui is doing a bunch of unnecessary work
loading all the cookbooks.

Dan

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Albert Llop 
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 wrote:
> Hi!
> This is an example dump of the server log when going to edit a node:
>
> merb : worker (port 4040) ~ Started request handling: Wed May 12 11:33:29
> +0200 2010
> merb : worker (port 4040) ~ Routed to: {"format"=>nil, "action"=>"edit",
> "id"=>"IMFW0003.imim.es", "controller"=>"chef_server_webui/nodes"}
> merb : worker (port 4040) ~ Params: {"format"=>nil, "action"=>"edit",
> "id"=>"IMFW0003.imim.es", "controller"=>"chef_server_webui/nodes"}
>
> ... then there's about 670 lines (95 requests in total) of requests like
> these:
>
> merb : worker (port 4000) ~ Started request handling: Wed May 12 11:33:29
> +0200 2010
> merb : worker (port 4000) ~ Routed to: {"format"=>nil, "action"=>"show",
> "id"=>"activemq", "controller"=>"chef_server_api/cookbooks"}
> merb : worker (port 4000) ~ Params: {"format"=>nil, "action"=>"show",
> "id"=>"activemq", "controller"=>"chef_server_api/cookbooks"}
> [Wed, 12 May 2010 11:33:29 +0200] INFO: Authenticating client chef-webui
> merb : worker (port 4000) ~ {:dispatch_time=>0.190167,
> :after_filters_time=>1.4e-05, :action_time=>0.189637,
> :before_filters_time=>0.006441}
> merb : worker (port 4000) ~
>
> And at the end:
>
> merb : worker (port 4040) ~ {:before_filters_time=>0.0517,
> :dispatch_time=>14.174253, :after_filters_time=>1.7e-05,
> :action_time=>14.173608}
> merb : worker (port 4040) ~
>
> it's not the end of the work, but it gets pretty slow when you have to
> change something on a few nodes, 14 seconds per node is a bit heavy, plus
> the 97 extra queries looks a bit overkill and at least in my mind, something
> that could be optimized.
>
> Is there something wrong, or is expected? Should I open a ticked? Apologies
> beforehand if you already know this, I just updated my installation of chef
> today and I found it weird that this was still working like this.
>
> Thanks!
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