<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi, I've installed spacewalk 2.2 and used the util script to create channels. I completed one repo sync for fedoa 20 updates which took 1 day and 9 hours. I noticed that the iowait was ~4 - 6% the entire time. When complete the db files or postgres were ~3GB. Questions 1. Will the sync take this long each time or only the 1st initial sync? It is not clear to me how much io will be repeated during an update sync. 2. The database and memory usage is ok. The server is centos 6.5 as a guest kvm vm on a centos host. The underlying file system is a raid 10 with 4 10k sas drives 600GB each, ~1.1TB, 18% used . The file system is xfs on the host, with a qcow2 disk for the vm, and ext4 within the guest. The driver in the guest is virtio. Is there a better fs/driver combination configuration? I also notices that the iowait in the host is ~50% less then iowait in the guest vm. The vm disk was created to be 124GB and 15GB were pre-allocated. <tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Controller information</tt><tt> </tt><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Controller type : SAS2008</tt><tt> </tt><tt> BIOS version : 7.11.10.00</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Firmware version : 7.15.08.00</tt><tt> </tt><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><tt> </tt><tt>IR Volume information</tt><tt> </tt><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><tt> </tt><tt>IR volume 1</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Volume ID : 78</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Volume Name : VD_1</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Status of volume : Okay (OKY)</tt><tt> </tt><tt> RAID level : RAID10</tt><tt> </tt><tt> Size (in MB) : 1143552</tt><tt> </tt><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Model Number for each disk : WD6001BKHG</tt><tt> </tt><tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt> 3. I am tempted to add an ssd pcie card or an external ssd based disk for the postgres database and give it to the vm as a passthrough device. Is there any recommendation for sizing, configuration to handle the io required? The channels are listed below. 4. Is it possible for fedora to provide a database dump for the repo-sync that could just be imported? Would this be more efficient? I assume this is not helpful since it has not been done and I should just add a file system and hardware to meet the io requirement. 5. Could anyone offer a recommendation for capacity and io for the database specifically? The rpms reside on an nfs share external to the vm. 6. Is it likely to take about a month to sync the repos listed below? And the sync - updated processes? The spacewalk requirements documented seem to need more elaboration on these details, especially the database io (unless my system is not normal and sub-par standard.). This scenario is for testing and I'd like to scale it properly. Advice is requested. Thank you, Kevin <tt>=======================================================================</tt><tt> </tt><tt>spacewalk-repo-sync </tt><tt>--channel </tt><tt> </tt><tt>fedora20-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>fedora20-x86_64-updates</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos6-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos6-x86_64-updates</tt><tt> </tt><tt>epel6-centos6-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos7-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos7-x86_64-updates</tt><tt> </tt><tt>epel7-centos7-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos6-x86_64-addons</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos6-x86_64-centosplus</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos6-x86_64-contrib</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos6-x86_64-extras</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos6-x86_64-fasttrack</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos7-x86_64-addons</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos7-x86_64-centosplus</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos7-x86_64-contrib</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos7-x86_64-extras</tt><tt> </tt><tt>centos7-x86_64-fasttrack</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>spacewalk-nightly-client-fedora20-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>spacewalk-nightly-server-fedora20-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>spacewalk-nightly-client-centos6-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>spacewalk-nightly-server-centos6-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt> <tt>=======================================================================</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>spacewalk-repo-sync --channel fedora20-x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>#### Channel label: fedora20-x86_64 ####</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Repo URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-20&arch=x86_64">https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-20&arch=x86_64</a></tt><tt> </tt><tt>Packages in repo: 38597</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Packages already synced: 0</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Packages to sync: 38597</tt><tt> </tt><tt>1/38597 : vala-devel-0.22.1-1.fc20-0.i686</tt><tt> </tt><tt>.........</tt><tt> </tt><tt>..............</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>spacewalk-repo-sync --channel fedora20-x86_64-updates</tt><tt> </tt><tt>=======================================================================</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>#### Channel label: fedora20-x86_64-updates ####</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Repo URL: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f20&arch=x86_64">https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f20&arch=x86_64</a></tt><tt> </tt><tt>Packages in repo: 18004</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Packages already synced: 0</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Packages to sync: 18004</tt><tt> </tt><tt>1/18004 : autocorr-is-4.2.5.2-6.fc20-1.noarch</tt><tt> </tt><tt>2/18004 : texlive-everypage-doc-svn15878.1.1-5.fc20-3.noarch</tt><tt> </tt><tt>........</tt><tt> </tt><tt>................</tt><tt> </tt><tt>........</tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><tt>18002/18004 : bigloo-libs-4.1a-4.2.fc20-0.i686</tt><tt> </tt><tt>18003/18004 : libinfinity-gtk-devel-0.5.5-1.fc20-0.x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>18004/18004 : kwin-gles-libs-4.11.10-2.fc20-0.x86_64</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Linking packages to channel.</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Repo <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f20&arch=x86_64">https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f20&arch=x86_64</a> has comps file b3eecc6977ab971945f5fcbf548e472869ba1af75e354160e03c79f70e965493-comps-f20.xml.gz.</tt><tt> </tt><tt>ERROR: failure: repodata/a558b061a3004e402bf0b2396b3a797d9182dbf2dcb3abd1be90fd3c11698974-updateinfo.xml.gz from fedora20-x86_64-updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Sync completed.</tt><tt> </tt><tt>Total time: 1 day, 9:42:52</tt><tt> </tt><tt>[root@spacewalk ~]# </tt> </body> </html>