[chef] Resource consumption on chef-solo

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Hey Chef Lists,

I am running chef-solo on the standard vagrant lucid32 box. My host OSes are
either Mac Lion or Ubuntu (10.04 32 bit). I'm running into a serious resource
consumption error and I'm wondering if you've seen this before.

Several of the larger packages in my setup (build-essentials, python-dev, a 
few
others) seem to freeze my computer. I got bored after watching both CPUs 
pegged
and RAM full for 9 minutes. I've tested the actual apt instruction on the VM
(i.e. apt-get install -q -y python-dev) and it runs very quickly. I've also 
run
the exact same cookbooks on a VM on the Ubuntu host and found no problems.
Therefore, it appears to be a problem that only manifests on some machines
running chef-solo in a virtual machine.

Any advice?
Thanks,
Tommy Guy
Wave Accounting