[chef] Re: CouchDB Dies Once a Week

[Peter Norton < >]

Did you check other system logs (e.g. dmesg) for OOM killer messages?
I saw that when running a test chef server a month or so ago.

-Peter

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:48 AM,  
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 wrote:
> 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/)