[chef] Re: Solr dieing every few days

[Peter Norton < >]

Check out your OOM killer log entries.  I had this happen on a test
chef server on an amazon EC2 t1.micro instance.

If this is your problem, unfortunately I suspect the answer is to get
more memory.

-Peter

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Mark Rechler 
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 wrote:
> Hi Eeveryone,
>
> I was wondering if anybody else has come across this behavior. Every few
> days Solr seems to die resulting in the processes needing to be killed and
> restarting chef-solr and chef-solr-indexer. The following appears in the
> logs at the time when Solr becomes unusable (Centos 5.6, chef 0.9.16):
>
> solr-indexer.log:
> FATAL: POST to Solr 'http://localhost:8983' failed.
> Chef::Exceptions::SolrConnectionError exception: Errno::ECONNREFUSED:
> Connection refused - connect(2) attempting to contact http://localhost:8983
>
> solr.log:
> FATAL: Search Query to Solr
> 'http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q=domain%3Afal&start=0&rows=1000&sort=X_CHEF_id_CHEF_X+asc&wt=ruby&indent=off&fq=%2BX_CHEF_database_CHEF_X%3Achef+%2BX_CHEF_type_CHEF_X%3Anode'
> failed.  Chef::Exceptions::SolrConnectionError exception:
> Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2) attempting to contact
> http://localhost:8983
> or
> FATAL: Search Query to Solr
> 'http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q=domain%3Afal&start=0&rows=1000&sort=X_CHEF_id_CHEF_X+asc&wt=ruby&indent=off&fq=%2BX_CHEF_database_CHEF_X%3Achef+%2BX_CHEF_type_CHEF_X%3Anode'
> failed.  Chef::Exceptions::SolrConnectionError exception: Timeout::Error:
> Timeout::Error attempting to contact http://localhost:8983
>
> I've set the jetty timeout to an hour in case to see if it gets rid of the
> timeout errors.
> Appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>