[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: solr fun

[Chris < >]

Would adding 2 additional workers to each api node be enough? Getting
new VMs might be an issue.

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Chris wrote:
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> server is a bit old, 10.16.2.
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> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Daniel DeLeo 
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> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Chris wrote:
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> hi chefs
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> i have a question about the solr query that a node does at the
> beginning of its run -- this one
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> select?q=content:hostname__%3D__*&wt=json&fq=%2BX_CHEF_database_CHEF_X:chef+%2BX_CHEF_type_CHEF_X:node&rows=1000
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> it looks like its asking for a list of every node, which at first
> seems fine. but its causing me a lot of grief and i'm wondering what
> to do about it.
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> if i query solr in a browser it returns very quickly, and i can even
> see that in the solr log when my chef servers run the query. the
> problem is that if this list has 400-ish or more entries in it my chef
> server nodes start using a ton of cpu and are slow to respond to
> clients. it seems like the chef servers are having a hard time
> processing the results. i have 1300 clients split across 2 chef
> servers (api only. solr, couch, and rabbit are on a different host),
> each with 8GB and 4 cores. do i simply need more chef server nodes?
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> What version of the server is this?
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> Daniel DeLeo
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> Upgrading to Chef 11 server is probably your best bet. We don't have
> official migration tools yet, but you can follow this guide:
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> http://www.ducea.com/2013/03/05/howto-migrate-to-chef-11/
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> Chef 10.x clients are compatible with server 11.x, though I'd recommend
> upgrading knife on your workstation to at least 10.18.2 (10.24.0 is the
> latest 10.x) to get some small forward compat fixes (affects `knife client
> reregister`).
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> If that's not an option, then you probably need to scale out chef-server
> workers.
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