[chef] Re: solr fun

[Adam Jacob < >]

As Dan said, upgrading to Chef 11 will help a lot here. Partial search is
your friend as well.

Best,
Adam

On 3/6/13 7:35 AM, "Chris" 
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 wrote:

>hi chefs
>
>i have a question about the solr query that a node does at the
>beginning of its run -- this one
>
>select?q=content:hostname__%3D__*&wt=json&fq=%2BX_CHEF_database_CHEF_X:che
>f+%2BX_CHEF_type_CHEF_X:node&rows=1000
>
>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.
>
>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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