Overview

Ohai detects information about your operating system, and can therefore benefit from fine-tuning to improve performance when running with large user bases.

Modify nodes.rb to reduce automatic_attrs size

Modify Ohai to read passwords directly

This will be addressed with OHAI-165. Pending that, the following change will be beneficial:

Update standard bootstrap template

Speeds up chef-client execution, because LDAP servers can return a huge number of passwords.

Disable undesirable Ohai plugins

If you do not want some Ohai plugins to run, you can disable them by doing something like the following:

You may desire to choose other plugins that the ones in the above example. See Disabling Ohai Plugins for additional information.