[chef] Re: Re: Chef setup has become unstable

[Madhurranjan Mohaan < >]

Thanks for the responses. Versions are as follows;

Chef server that runs all the services - Centos 5.5  64bit with 4GB Ram . Its a VM in Vmware .
Chef server version  - 0.10.6 since we faced some issues in 0.10.8 windows gem when we initially did it .

Do you think we should scale out ? If yes, what services do you think we should run on different servers? Also, on my end, I am trying to see if all of them are needed and trying to delete unnecessary nodes but that would just be a max of 10-15 nodes.

thanks
Ranjan

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Joshua Timberman < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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 < "> > 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 .
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> Can you please suggest some ways so that atleast the response times improve considerably?
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> Ranjan