[Spacewalk-list] Endless osad issues

[Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta)]

Updated the wiki...
https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/JabberAndOSAD


Should have everything in there now.
Let me know if you guys have any questions.

-Josh







On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:42 -0500, Stroehmann, James wrote:
> I’m having the same issues, and have put a couple of band-aids in
> place as workarounds. Would moving jabber from berkely db to mysql or
> postgres help this?
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> From:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Benjamin
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:04 PM
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Endless osad issues
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> Josh,
> 
> Thanks, I think the cronjob will work for the dead osad problem, and
> my idle fix will keep them from going into the phantom connection
> state.  So far our deployment has been only a few hundred servers with
> Satellite, I just worry about this solutions scalability.  Even
> 2-3,000 servers constantly re-connecting every 10 minutes when the
> idle timeout hits or the cronjob restarts the service seems like a bad
> idea.
> 
> 
> - Steve
> 
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> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, <Josh.Mullis at cox.com> wrote:
> 
> Steve,
> 
> I was able to resolve some similar issues the other day and will
> update the wiki sometime tomorrow hopefully.
> 
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/spacewalk-list@redhat.com/msg03702.html
> 
> 
> I also have a cronjob on all my clients that restarts osad and runs
> rhn_check roughly every 4 hours randomly.
> 
> I also have rhnsd disabled on the clients.
> 
> It's a lotta crap, but it has been working flawlessly for several
> weeks.
> Scheduled actions get picked up on 250+ servers within 5 mins.
> 
> 
> Let me know if this works for you.
> 
> I'll try to update the wiki with everything hopefully by this weekend.
> 
> Good luck
> -Josh
> 
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> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com
> <spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com>
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wed Feb 10 20:03:17 2010
> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Endless osad issues
> 
> Hi Steve
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't offer any useful advise other than to log this
> with RedHat GSS.  If lots of people do this then maybe the problem
> will be fixed sooner.
> 
> FWIW, I'd like func to replace osad sooner rather than later also.
> There used to be an entry on the roadmap
> (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/roadmap) with func on the timeline
> but it's gone now.
> 
> CC
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Stephen Benjamin <skbenja at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I inherited a Satellite system with a couple of proxies, and have
> had
> > endless issues with osad.  I finally fixed it and it was working
> well for a
> > whole week.  The exact issue I was having was this:
> > https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/JabberAndOSAD.  Changed the
> idle
> > timeout to 600 and except for an increase in traffic, it works ok,
> but not
> > great (since at disconnect, the osads wait up to 120 seconds to
> reconnect,
> > so effectively giving my osads 80-90% uptime -- better than the
> previous of
> > near-zero).
> >
> > Now I came in yesterday and osad on 300+ boxes were just dead -
> service osad
> > status showed pid file existed, but osad not running.  No idea why,
> no logs
> > were generated on any of those boxes or on the Satellite server.
> Jabberd's
> > were fine.  Any ideas?
> >
> > osad is really unreliable, and I'm not the only one.  Is there any
> priority
> > on replacing it with Func someday?
> >
> >
> >
> > - Steve
> >
> > --
> > Stephen Benjamin
> > skbenja at gmail.com
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