[chef] Re: Re: swap consuming bug in cookbook_file, chef-solo v10.26, SmartOS

[Yonah Russ < >]

Hi,

Regarding the file server bit, we're using chef-solo+git specifically to avoid setting up infrastructure (like chef or nfs or lighttpd servers) just to manage our infrastructure.
I could easily workaround the bug by running cp source destination in a bash/execute resource but it seems like the cookbook_file resource was meant to be used for this :?
Is there a howto on using ruby-prof to find the problem here or chef problems in general?

Thanks,
Yonah

On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Ranjib Dey < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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" < " target="_blank"> > 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