[chef] Debugging dependencies

[Arnold Krille < >]

Hi all,

since some days my opensource-chef-server is acting up. Most hosts work 
just fine, for some hosts erchef takes ~1000(!) seconds to process the 
dependencies. And eats all the cpu. Thankfully this doesn't block other 
clients from getting their data. But some hosts haven't been able to get 
the data for a successfull chef run for some days now. It seems to be 
some of my cookbooks, alone or in combination. But I am currently 
lacking data to debug this.

Is there a way to make erchef output the dep-cycles its calculating per 
request? Or is there a way to query dependencies on chef-server by hand?
I tried setting "erchef['log_level'] = :debug" in 
/etc/chef-server/chef-server.rb followed by "chef-server-ctl 
reconfigure" but that resulted only in one info-level logline per 
request.

Thanks in advance,

Arnold