[DRE-maint] Bug#778303: chef: Memory leak

[Piotr Pańczyk]

Hello Antonio,
I think the simple, ad ad-hoc solution can be changing the default logrotate period from a week to a day, which would slightly reduce the amount of wasted memory, as logrotate restarts the daemon.

The problem is quite serious for us, especially on servers running a lot of virtual machines. If you manage to apply the commits related to the forking behaviour, I can test the package for you.

On 22.02.2015 03:16, Antonio Terceiro wrote:

Hello Piotr,

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 03:56:38PM +0100, Piotr Pańczyk wrote:


Hello Antonio,

On 13.02.2015 14:29, Antonio Terceiro wrote:


Would you by any chance be able to identify the upstream commit that
introduced the fix? If so, I can try backporting that and releasing a
stable update.


I think this is it:
https://github.com/chef/chef/pull/291



I was looking at this, and there a few issues:

- that commit does not apply clean on the wheezy chef tree.

- there are are a few other commits in the upstream history related to
  the forking behaviour, so I think there were a few issues with this
  it. I have the the impression that it is too risky to pull this into a
  stable branch, and I won't have to spare cycles to handle the breakage
  that will probably come.

- I only use chef-solo, so testing this would a little difficult for me.



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Greetings,
Piotr Pańczyk

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