[chef] Re: debugging slow knife?

[Alex Soto < >]

Don't have a solution for you, just giving some comparison numbers:

MacBook Pro, 2.66Ghz i7, 7200 rpm drive
$ time knife node show i-1a795175
real    0m1.071s
user    0m0.346s
sys     0m0.116s

$ time knife help
real    0m0.410s
user    0m0.311s
sys     0m0.098s

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i686-darwin10.4.0]

On May 3, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Michael Schueler wrote:

> Hi Chefs,
> 
> I'm using the opscode platform.  Before 0.10 the knife command was 
> unbearably slow.  It's definately at least twice as fast, but it's still 
> kind of sluggish.  Even issuing the help command to knife takes 2 seconds.
> 
> Some simple stuff:
> 
> Off my MacBook Pro..
> % time knife node show e02
> <snip>
> knife node show e02  3.17s user 0.23s system 74% cpu 4.544 total
> 
> % time knife help
> <snip>
> knife help  2.12s user 0.17s system 99% cpu 2.296 total
> 
> % ruby -v
> ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10.7.0]
> 
> 
> My results are similar from an ec2 c1.xlarge...
> 
> # time knife ec2 --help
> <snip>
> real    0m1.843s
> user    0m1.300s
> sys    0m0.550s
> 
> # ruby -v
> ruby 1.8.7 (2010-01-10 patchlevel 249) [x86_64-linux]
> 
> 
> Is this expected?  It might not seem like much but it's enough to really 
> slow me down and annoy me..
> 
> Thanks
> Mike