[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: chef, CentOS/RedHat, and rubygem-rest-client updates

[Paul Choi < >]

Now that you mention hundreds or thousands of servers...
What's the biggest that you find Chef can handle? I probably have about
100-ish hosts in Chef, and probably more in the near future. I have 6 thin
processes running chef-server and sometimes I find that it's pretty slow.
Running on 4 cores, 16GB RAM (excessive I know), and I find that it's
pretty CPU-bound, often busy at chef-server.

-Paul

On 3/25/11 11:00 AM, "Sean OMeara" 
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>I maintain RPMs targeted towards Fedora. They should work on RHEL6 /
>SL6 and Centos6 whenever they get around to putting it out
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>http://yum.afistfulofservers.net/affs-chef/fedora/13/x86_64/
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>-s
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>On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:46 PM, KC Braunschweig
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>> +1 for better RHEL/CentOS support and supported RPMs especially. I
>> really like Chef but it's a hard sell at a company with hundreds or
>> thousands of RHEL servers at the moment. A couple of you mentioned
>> only using gems, but going that route I seem to keep hitting Ruby path
>> issues. Plus I don't really like the idea of having to install
>> compilers and devel packages on all my prod machines so they can gem
>> install various libraries. Wondering if I need to break down and just
>> roll my own RPMs until Opscode has a supported yum repo.
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>> KC Braunschweig
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>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Joshua Timberman 
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>>> Ohai!
>>> And we're working to improve those in the near future :-).
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