[chef] goiardi 0.9.0 - Spaceship and Sun

[Jeremy Bingham < >]

I made a new goiardi release over the weekend to address some issues before the 1.0.0 release (which will bring goiardi up to speed with Chef 12, and that I've been working on somewhat lackadaisically).

The fixes in goiardi 0.9.0 "Spaceship and Sun" are subtle, but far reaching. The most important change is that the search indexes are now compressed in memory. The amount of RAM used by the indexes drops to roughly a quarter to a third of the previous amount, which is a nice improvement in my mind. Additionally, if you set GOMAXPROCS, goiardi will parallelize reading the search indexes across that many CPUs, giving search speed a nice boost. Search results are ordered properly now as well; the default is "id ASC" (internally mapped to "name"), but ordering by other top level keys should work reasonably well (ordering by other keys is unlikely to work right, I'm afraid).

Less importantly, the index and datastore files (the latter is only important if goiardi is running in in-memory mode) now only write to disk if there have been any changes made. In tandem with that the interval for automatically writing data to disk has changed from 300 seconds to 10 seconds. Finally, on a cosmetic note, goiardi now claims to be Open Source Chef Server version 11.1.6.

Release notes and binaries can be found at https://github.com/ctdk/goiardi/releases/tag/v0.9.0.

-j