[Spacewalk-list] massive transactions on dist import

[Marcus Moeller]

Dear Michael.

> %
> % > % > we have noticed that a distribution import (e.g. full F11 64bit) causes a huge oracle transaction log (about 50GB). The database itself has a size of about 7GB atm.
> ...
> % > I was talking about the archive log.
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> I'm sorry I haven't looked at it yet.
>
> % As the size of the archive.log results in the number of commits and
> % nearly every update is committed separately the file grows
> % continuously. During import we got about 800 MB archive.log within 3
> % minutes.
>
> BTW how was import done? Using spacewalk-repo-sync or rhnpush?

It does not matter if the import is done via spacewalk-repo-sync or rhnpush. This problem occurs on our spacewalk as well as on our satellite server, the only difference is the amount of imported data.

Best Regards
Marcus
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