[chef] Re: Chef setup has become unstable

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Are you running all the chef server services on one machine? What is the 
hardware spec of it? 160 nodes is quite a few. Sounds like you may need to 
start scaling out the server and run services on separate systems. 

On Jun 16, 2012, at 2:16, Madhurranjan Mohaan 
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 wrote:

> Hi experts,
> 
> We're running 140 Windows nodes and 20 linux based nodes on our chef server 
> with roughly around 40 cookbooks. We've experienced over the last week or 
> so that chef server/ couchdb and chef-solr dies randomly . Can't seem to 
> find much in the logs . I have set it to debug mode.  We've setup monit to 
> automatically restart the processes. We run couchdb compaction at midnight 
> every day . Also , we've seen that the chef server response is very slow 
> when we upload cookbooks or perform any activity through knife . This 
> definitely wasn't the case a couple of months back . 
> 
> Can you please suggest some ways so that atleast the response times improve 
> considerably?
> 
> Ranjan