[chef] Re: Chefspec Errno::ENOMEM

[Steven De Coeyer < >]

Curtis

It looks like your server is maxed out of free memory. It can no longer 
allocate new memory to new processes.
You’ll have to upgrade your server memory or find out what’s taking up all of 
the memory and do something about that.

Kind regards,
Steven

On 11 Feb 2014, at 16:58, Stewart, Curtis 
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 >
 wrote:

> On a handful of recipes, we’re getting the following errors and cannot seem 
> to avoid them.  The pattern appears to be with any `Mixlib::ShellOut` 
> commands.
> 
> Working in a chef-repo.
> 
> chef-client v11.8.0
> chefspec v3.1.4
> 
> We’re currently running specs on our entire repo through a Jenkins server.  
> 
> recipe code:
> 
> cmd1 = Mixlib::ShellOut.new("s3cmd info #{node[‘app']['s3_source']} | grep 
> MD5 | awk '{print $3}'").run_command
> 
> error:
> 
>  Errno::ENOMEM:
>        Cannot allocate memory - fork(2)
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Curtis
>