[chef] RE: Resource consumption on chef-solo

[David Leaver < >]

This is probably what you are experiencing:

http://help.opscode.com/discussions/problems/1174-memory-usage-goes-crazy-during-package-checking-package-status-apt
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2947

The patch on the ticket fixed the issue for me :)

We experienced this on physical machines (lucid 64bit), it is a bit of a race 
condition by the looks.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Subject: [chef] Resource consumption on chef-solo

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