[chef] chef-solo: Is there a way to stream stderr/stdout output of executed processes without buffering?

[Joshua Blatt < >]

chef-solo seems to buffer all stderr/stdout output of any process 
created by the execute resource and then dumps it at the end of the 
run.   This makes debugging issues more difficult because you don't see 
errors when they actually occur.

In one particular case, I had a long running execute'd script that was 
causing chef-solo to increase it's memory consumption rapidly.   Soon 
chef-solo was consuming 3.5GB heap at which point the machine was 
swapping heavily.   After waiting hours for the executed process to 
finally finish, chef-solo dumped thousands of lines that looked like this:

Re-format filesystem in /var/hadoop/hdfs/data ? (Y or N) Re-format 
filesystem in /var/hadoop/hdfs/data ? (Y or N) Re-format filesystem in 
/var/hadoop/hdfs/data ? (Y or N) Re-format filesystem in 
/var/hadoop/hdfs/data ? (Y or N) ...

If chef-solo had simply relayed that instead of buffering it without 
bound ...

Thanks,

Josh