[chef] Re: Debugging dependencies

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

You can use https://github.com/coderanger/knife-solve to debug these kinds of ;
issues. Just recursively narrow the set of cookbooks you pass it until you 
find the minimal set that fails to solve (in a reasonable amount of time 
anyway). Often by then the error in the constraints is pretty clear.

--Noah

On May 8, 2014, at 1:40 AM, Arnold Krille 
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 wrote:

> 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

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