[chef] Re: Re: Re: chef-client memory usage

[Sean OMeara < >]

I haven't actually had a chance to play with these myself, but if
you're on a modern linux distro, you may be able to use cgroups to
isolate memory usage on a per process basis. (ie, keep your Java
processes safe)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups
http://northernmost.org/blog/control-groups-in-rhel6/

-s

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Chris 
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> That's not a bad idea either, we already have monit running on each client 
> node to restart the client when it crashes
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> Sent from a phone
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> On Dec 12, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Brian Akins 
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>> On Dec 9, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Chris wrote:
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>>> Yep, that worked. Thanks.
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>>> Client is sitting at 138m RSS now, which is a lot better. Hopefully it 
>>> will stop creeping up over time as well.
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>> Lately, we've been running monit (for various services) and we have it 
>> restart chef-client when memory is above x MB for n minutes.
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>> --Brian