[chef] CouchDB Dies Once a Week

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We have been using chef for a few months now and we had noticed that every 
once
in awhile chef-server will not respond and the chef-server-webui will not 
load.


We found this was because couchDB was dead with no errors in its logs at
/var/log/couchdb/couch.log. 

Since the server is a VM and our company sometimes needs to restart them for
maintenance we thought it might be that couch wasn't starting on startup but
chkconfig shows it is 'on' for 2-5.

Restarting couchDB and if necessary chef-server fixed the issue, but I was
wondering if anyone else had come across this issue?

OS: RHEL 5.5 x64
Chef: 0.10.4

Chef-Server was installed using the packages here (http://rbel.frameos.org/)