[chef] Re: Re: Re: Controling Memory usage

[Brian Akins < >]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Brian Malinconico 
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> So in your experience it seems to plateaus at some point (in your cahse
> 100nodes)?

100 nodes was a nice round number - not sure what the real number was,
but yes memory plateaus.

> What size machine are you using, and is everything running on one
> box or have you deployed it as shards?

When we were running open source chef-server,  we used an 8GB box.  We
ran the api service under rainbows, not unicorn, and this help with
the overall memory usage as well. Not 100% sure if that is "supported"
but we did it for about a year and it worked fine.

We use private chef now and run several thousand nodes on each server
(one per physical datacenter). We are using larger boxes now, however.