[chef] Re: Re: Chef Server Hardware Reqs (was Re: Chef stability?)

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Allan Carroll 
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> That's likely the same problem I'm having. I've been trying to run my Chef
> server off of a machine with 700GB (EC2 micro instance).
> This begs the larger question:  what size of machine is recommended for
> running Chef? Seems like a pretty beefy system with all the parts running.

Much of this will depend on what you are doing with it.  Solr is going
to want more ram as you add more indexed objects, and as the frequency
with which you search increases.  CouchDB tends to run quite leanly,
and relies on OS file caching.

I've happily run a Chef server for nodes that check in every half on
hour for around a 100 systems on an EC2 small instance.

Adam

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