[chef] Re: Debugging memory leak issues with chef-client?

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Jul 8, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Brad Knowles 
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> I've seen CHEF-3432 and CHEF-3985, but I'm still seeing memory leak issues 
> with chef-client 10.18.2, even though it's not running in daemon mode.  The 
> VM is configured for 2GB of "RAM" and 8GB of swap, and I'm now seeing 
> chef-client reliably running up to ~9GB VSZ and 1.7GB RSS.  This just 
> started today, as I've been debugging and resolving various other issues in 
> the cookbooks and recipes that we're using for this system.

Okay, so I think I may have found a bug in chef-client.  If you change the 
name returned by `hostname` to something else, I'm guessing that chef-client 
will flake out in precisely this manner because the node name no longer 
matches the hostname.

When we changed the hostname back to match the node name, this memory leak 
behaviour disappeared.


Should I update CHEF-3432 or CHEF-3985 with this new piece of information?

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