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

[Chris < >]

That would actually help, since the client memory can balloon to 400m on some 
systems
I suggested running from cron with a random interval, but the spike issue 
came up. I think we're just going to have to buy more memory

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On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Brian Akins 
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> On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Bryan Berry wrote:
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>> sadly, cgroups are only available on centos 6
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> Wouldn't cgroups just limit the amount of memory chef could use? It 
> wouldn't really "solve" the problem.
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> Just run chef-client from cron and come up with a simple way to trigger it. 
> Simple thing in (x)inetd should be good enough.
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> FWIW, a few weeks into using monit with chef-cient - so far so good.
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