[chef] Re: disk running out of space


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  • From: Spike Grobstein < >
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  • Subject: [chef] Re: disk running out of space
  • Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:26:54 -0500

Hi Ranjib,

I may have had 20 version bumps ever. I only just recently started versioning as I needed to keep separate versions for prod and staging environments.

I can't imagine version bumps causing 40GB+ of disk usage, though. I may have uploaded my cookbooks a few thousand times, but I've only made 2 or 3 changes in the last month.

could there be something else?


...spike



On Nov 16, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Ranjib Dey wrote:

Do you bump up the cookbook versions too often? Check if you have older versions of cookbooks thst you dont use,

On Nov 16, 2012 3:40 PM, "Spike Grobstein" < "> > wrote:
btw, this is my chef compaction script:


forgot to include that before.



...spike

On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:38 PM, Spike Grobstein wrote:

Hi

I've been running chef-server since about March of this year on our infrastructure for 81 nodes. After running out of space twice due to couchDB compaction being incorrectly configured, I finally got it working right, but I'm still beginning to run out of space at a rate of around 1.5GB per week.

I began poking around in the couchDB web UI and we've got over 11,000 documents stored in the 'chef' database taking up 42GB. Looking at the docs, they're mostly 'sandbox' objects from what I can tell, with the occasional 'data_bag' object. Also, the vast majority of the sandbox objects I've looked at have a 'create_time' of march or april of this year.

So my questions are:

1. is there any way to clean up these old documents
2. is there any way to prevent couchdb from getting larger? I have a 60GB disk allocated exclusively for couchdb data and that's a lot larger than I'd really like
3. could it be something else that's misconfigured?

Some details about the installation:

The server is Ubuntu and chef-server was installed via the OpsCode PPA. We're running chef 0.10.8.

I've got a couple of recipes that set node attributes when they run; primarily datestamps for when some recipes are run so they don't get run on a regular basis and things like that, but I'm not aware of anything else I could be doing that would cause such growth in the database.

Hopefully you guys can shed some light on this.

Thanks!



...spike





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