[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk requirements

[Miroslav Suchý]

Michiel van Es wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering what the default requirements for spacewalk 0.4/0.5 is.
> I am now running with a 2 CPU vmware guest with 1,3 GB memory and 500 MB 
> swap.
> But the machine is running out of resources:
> 
> top - 14:33:15 up 9 days,  3:28,  2 users,  load average: 40.81, 32.33, 
> 17.20
> Tasks: 111 total,  35 running,  76 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.2%us, 97.7%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.0%si,  
> 1.8%st
> Mem:   1310896k total,  1304648k used,     6248k free,      212k buffers
> Swap:   557048k total,   557048k used,        0k free,     7484k cached
> 
> This is with 28 clients being updated at the moment...and I will be 
> running approx 100 servers in total.
> 
> Do I need more memory and cpu?

Yes.
I use 1GB for testing instances (e.g. 1-2 clients).
2GB RAM should be minimal if you do not want to wait for ages for every 
page.
If you want to use monitoring add another 500 MB at least.

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Miroslav Suchy
Red Hat Satellite Engineering