<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 May 2017, at 7:10 am, Bill <<a href="mailto:howe.bill@gmail.com" class="">howe.bill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><tt class="">osad -> Constant issues with that daemon...found myself
writing auto-healing health checks for it and constantly baby
sitting it.</tt></li>
</ul></div></div></blockquote>You might want to consider switching the jabberd database from the default Berkeley DB to either SQLite or PostgreSQL:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://omg.dje.li/2017/02/configuring-spacewalks-jabberd-to-use-an-sqlite-backend/" class="">https://omg.dje.li/2017/02/configuring-spacewalks-jabberd-to-use-an-sqlite-backend/</a></div><div><a href="https://omg.dje.li/2017/03/configuring-spacewalks-jabberd-to-use-a-postgresql-backend/" class="">https://omg.dje.li/2017/03/configuring-spacewalks-jabberd-to-use-a-postgresql-backend/</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Since doing this I’ve had zero problems with osad on both small and very large implementations. All the issues with osad seem to be caused by the default DB driver.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>FYI, you’ll need to reapply this configuration after upgrading Spacewalk (e.g. from 2.5 to 2.6) as the spacewalk-setup tool resets the configuration back to the default during an upgrade.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Avi</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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