[chef] Re: Re: 76 running chef-client processes exhausting system memory

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Phil Cryer wrote:

Additionally, I'm currently running 6 nodes, and the 4 that this

always happens to are the web servers (which have 15+ recipes/packages

assigned to them), the 2 db servers (which only have 2 recipes

assigned) never have this issue, which makes me think something is

happening with yum to gum things up.

On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Phil Cryer < "> > wrote:

ISSUE

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76 running chef-client processes exhausting system memory, causing

other apps to crash (in this case zabbix), chef-client is set to run

once an hour, currently showing 76 running processes.

Are you running chef out of cron?

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Daniel DeLeo