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


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  • From: "John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >
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  • Cc: Paul Choi < >, KC Braunschweig < >
  • Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: chef, CentOS/RedHat, and rubygem-rest-client updates
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:16:06 -0400
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Paul Choi 
< >
 wrote:
> 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
>

Have you moved Couch/Rabbit/solr to it's own distinct resources yet?
That would be my first step if not.

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