Though this behavior is not expected , I'll suggest not to use chef as a file server to distribute large binaries or config files . use NFS or a vanilla lighthttpd server in to host the file and remotely_file resource inside the chef recipes to install it instead.
For getting the root cause you can use ruby-prof with kcachegrind to check which part of the close is actually consuming large memory
On Jun 30, 2013 6:21 AM, "Yonah Russ" <
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> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple resource as follows:
>
> cookbook_file "/opt/local/share/da.json" do
> source "da.json"
> owner "root"
> group "root"
> mode "0644"
> action :create_if_missing
> notifies :reload, resources(:service => "apache")
> end
>
> The source file is 8MB.
> When chef needs to create this file, it suddenly consumes 750+MB of swap.
>
> Is this a known bug? Any recommendations on a workaround other than not using cookbook_file?
>
> Thanks,
> Yonah
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