[chef] Re: os_process_error in CouchDB

[Adam Jacob < >]

Can you show us the full stack trace from CouchDB?

Have you showed it to the folks on the CouchDB list?

Adam

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:51 AM,  
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 wrote:
> We are seeing a strange error in CouchDB that causes Chef to become unusable
> and unrecoverable. The knife command ceases to respond, and the chef webui
> ceases to respond. /var/log/couch.log shows an os_process_error with exit
> status 0.
>
> This is the second time this has happened. The first time, it happened to
> our chef-server that was running properly for several weeks. On Monday, at
> about 11 AM EST, the error occurred and our chef-server became urecoverable.
> We tried to research and recover the issue for about a day.
>
> We then rebuilt the chef-server this morning. During the setup/installation,
> we encountered this issue (http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2346)
> which we had encountered in the past. We then applied the fix, by increasing
> maxFieldLength in the mainIndex section of the chef solr config file.
>
> Very shortly after that, while do a chef run on a lab node, running a knife
> command and trying to access the web UI all at the same time, the
> os_process_error occurred again and the chef-server became unusable.
>
> Our chef-server is running on a vSphere VM with 2 cores (2 cores in 1
> socket), 2GB of RAM. It's running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Chef 0.10.8 and CouchDB
> 0.10. The VM was generated from a pre-existing VM that originally had only 1
> core.
>
> Another detail about our environment that may be important is that we use
> Centrify on our Linux server for Active Directory integration. This is why
> we were affected by CHEF-2346. Since chef pulls in all authorized users on a
> node as an automatic attribute, there can be thousands of users in a list
> that gets gathered by chef.
>
> Is perhaps CouchDB dying because of the size of the node data that we are
> asking chef to gather? Has anyone else encountered this error? Much thanks
> for any help. Let me know if I can provide any more information.
>
> Ian D. Rossi
>



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