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

[Gilles Devaux < >]

Maybe it's unrelated but if you don't install chef-server through the
recipe you have to compact the couchdb indexes yourself or you'll
waste tons of mem: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Compaction

Here is the script I use in a cron: https://gist.github.com/705726

--Gilles

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Adam Jacob 
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> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Chris Read 
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>> I was having solr crashes with 2GB RAM - turned out I needed to also
>> increase the heap size to 512MB RAM to get things stable.
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> Right - just having the RAM isn't enough, you need to tune the JVM as well.
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> For our (very large in comparison to almost everyone else, and way
> over-provisioned) setups config file:
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> solr_java_opts "-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m"
> solr_heap_size "6144M"
> solr_java_opts "-server"
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> That machine has 8GB of RAM.
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> Adam
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