[Spacewalk-list] Oracle XE reached 4GB Limit

[Rampersad, Shaun]

Rampersad, Shaun wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I've been using spacewalk to manage my centos servers. I have a mix of 
>> Centos 4 and 5, both 32 and 64 bit. I have created channels for each one 
>> of them and have over 100 servers registered.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The problem is that the Oracle XE DB has reached its 4GB limit. How can 
>> I get around this? Do I need to delete all "old" packages from the 
>> repository and then delete the channel and upload?
>
>I do not have any solutions to offer other than trying to trim/purge old 
>system profiles and packages.

I have deleted the Centos4 i386 channels since I only had 6 servers registered on this. I have also deleted about 3000 orphaned packages on spacewalk under "Manage Software Packages" but I still cannot load newer packages on Centos 5 channel. Its as if the delete did not free up the DB space and it is still on 4GB

Anything else I can try? I wanted to delete the Centos4 x86_64 bit channel as well but if it has no effect then its pointless. 

Thanks
Shaun

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>
>> Are there any alternatives to Oracle XE? Has there been any progress on 
>> Postgres? I see that this is scheduled for release on spacewalk 2.0.
>
>Postgres is progressing, slowly, but we have achieved a point where it 
>can install and some very basic functionality seems to work, but it is 
>not even in an alpha state. More information:
>
>https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2010-October/msg00017.html
>
>Spacewalk nightly can be installed without Oracle bits (developers only) 
>
>NOTE: developers only...
>
>Cliff

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