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

[Chris < >]

Yeah, I wouldn't call centos 5.5 modern, I'll have to look and see if we can 
even support cgroups

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On Dec 20, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Sean OMeara 
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> 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)
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cgroups
> http://northernmost.org/blog/control-groups-in-rhel6/
> 
> -s
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> 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.
>>>> 
>>>> Client is sitting at 138m RSS now, which is a lot better. Hopefully it 
>>>> will stop creeping up over time as well.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> --Brian