[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk continually generating Errata Alert Emails

Paul Robert Marino prmarino1 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 19:38:19 UTC 2013


well then stop spacewalk and restart postgresql



On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Matthew Ceroni <matthewceroni at gmail.com>wrote:

> Paul:
>
> The errata import script itself isn't still running. That completed in a
> few hours. I think in total it imported 800 errata. Spot checking them it
> appears to have loaded correctly (in the correct channel, with the correct
> packages linked).
>
> What is currently using all the CPU is postgres itself.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> please look at the email string that started yesterday on this list
>> entitled  "API calls for new hosts" for the discussion we just had about
>> PostgreSQL maintenance.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> never mind I know the script
>>> its a very different approach to the script I wrote
>>> https://github.com/prmarino1/Extravehicular-Activity-Admin/blob/master/errata-tools/eva-direct-errata-sync.pl
>>> and there is an other script which started as somewhat of hybrid of the
>>> two which was written by Franky Van Liedekerke.
>>>
>>> I unfortunately don't have much experience with it but you should check
>>> if its still running in the background because that could explain the
>>> behavior you are describing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Paul Robert Marino <prmarino1 at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ceroni
>>>> Lol
>>>> We just had this conversation
>>>> Vacuum and analyze the table
>>>>
>>>> Also what's the process that's eating the CPU and what tool are you
>>>> using for syncing your errata, and is it still running in the background?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Sent from my HP Pre3
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> On Apr 11, 2013 1:46 PM, Matthew Ceroni <matthewceroni at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> About a week ago I loaded all of the CentOS errata for version 5 and 6
>>>> (up until April 4), using the following tool
>>>>
>>>> http://cefs.steve-meier.de/
>>>>
>>>> The errata loaded, however ever since (so almost a week) the CPU usage
>>>> on my Spacewalk server hovers around 75% and I slowly get Spacewalk Errata
>>>> Alert indicating that one ore more systems you have registered are impacted
>>>> by said errata.
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the pg Activity log for Postgres I see the following
>>>> statement that is continually running:
>>>>
>>>> SELECT DISTINCT snv.server_id AS server_id, S.name, S.release, SA.name
>>>> as arch,
>>>>          urn.user_id
>>>>        FROM (
>>>>  --
>>>>  select rhnChannelErrata.errata_id, rhnChannelErrata.channel_id,
>>>> rhnServerChannel.server_id, rhnErrataPackage.package_id
>>>>  from rhnChannelErrata, rhnErrataPackage, rhnChannelNewestPackage,
>>>> rhnPackageEVR,
>>>>          rhnServerChannel, rhnServerPackage, rhnPackageUpgradeArchCompat
>>>>  where rhnChannelErrata.errata_id = rhnErrataPackage.errata_id
>>>>  --
>>>>          and rhnChannelErrata.channel_id =
>>>> rhnChannelNewestPackage.channel_id
>>>>          and rhnErrataPackage.package_id =
>>>> rhnChannelNewestPackage.package_id
>>>>  --
>>>>          and rhnChannelErrata.channel_id = rhnServerChannel.channel_id
>>>>          and rhnChannelNewestPackage.name_id = rhnServerPackage.name_id
>>>>          and rhnServerChannel.server_id = rhnServerPackage.server_id
>>>>  --
>>>>          and rhnChannelNewestPackage.evr_id = rhnPackageEVR.id
>>>>  --
>>>>          and rhnServerPackage.package_arch_id =
>>>> rhnPackageUpgradeArchCompat.package_arch_id
>>>>          and rhnPackageUpgradeArchCompat.pack
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have about 175 systems registered. Is there a way to optimize the DB
>>>> so that the searching of systems + applicable errata runs quicker. Or a way
>>>> to terminate the current (going on a week now) process that has been
>>>> running since I loaded all the Errata? I tried restarting Spacewalk but
>>>> that didn't resolve anything.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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