[Spacewalk-list] Disk usage by Spacewalk repo's is growing and never shrinking

[Tomas Lestach]

On Monday 04 of March 2013 12:52:39 Nielsen, Dennis Appelon wrote:
> Hi Michael
> Thanks for you reply... I'm running the spacewalk-data-fsck -v -r in a
> screen as I type.
> 
> I also have a problem with " java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space"
> 
> Where can I increase the memory ?

Maximum memory taskomatic may allocate is defined by
wrapper.java.maxmemory parameter in
/usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.conf


Regards,
-- 
Tomas Lestach
RHN Satellite Engineering

> 
> Snip from log
> 
> INFO   | jvm 3    | 2013/03/04 12:47:46 | 2013-03-04 12:47:46,058
> [Thread-67] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter -
> Generating new repository metadata for channel
> 'fedora18-x86_64-updates'(sha256) 18334 packages, 139 errata INFO   | jvm 3
>    | 2013/03/04 12:54:16 | Exception in thread "Thread-67"
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
> 
> -----//
> 
> 
> Best regards
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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> on behalf of Michael Mraka [michael.mraka at redhat.com] Sent: Monday, March
> 04, 2013 13:39
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Disk usage by Spacewalk repo's is growing and
> never shrinking
> 
> Nielsen, Dennis Appelon wrote:
> % Hi All
> % I need some help, I run a spacewalk server, and have had a lot of problems
> trying to monitor and update Oracle Linux 5. %
> % I have made many channels and repo's and delete a ton of them to, but
> deleting the repo from web, don't give any freespace in the /var
> filesystem. %
> % If I look around I can see that there are data from long gone repo's and
> channels, how can I regain my diskspace ?
> 
> spacewalk-data-fsck
> 
> It might help you to find and delete rpm packages on disk which
> are no longer referenced from database.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
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