[chef] Chef hangs when using Ruby Enterprise Edition

[Jacobo García < >]

Hi, 

I am cross-posting this from ruby enterprise list since I have got no answer there and its causing some problems on my chef install.

I am running REE 1.8.7 in some servers to host a rails app, the servers are managed with latest chef. I started to have orphaned passenger instances, the app was not behaving fine and my monitoring service were also reporting errors, I decided to switch to mongrel, the unstable behavior dissapeared.

Also, chef-client hangs every 2 or 3 days, I decided to run gdb on a hanged chef-client here [1] is what I got. Googling this I found this bug in ubuntu and upstream ruby:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2739

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/520715

After doing the tests suggested in comment #13 of the ubuntu bug tracker [2]. I reached to the same results. Actually I'm running REE 1.8.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

I am not strong in C or Ruby Internals, so I can not reach much far on this problem.

I'd like to know if someone here has being bitten by this problem with REE and if they have found a workaround.

Thanks

[1] https://gist.github.com/0c641351ae2627559193

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/520715/comments/13

Jacobo García López de Araujo
blog: http://robotplaysguitar.com
http://workingwithrails.com/person/13395-jacobo-garc-a