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

Tue Mar 5 10:09:18 UTC 2013

Hello,
I have created and post here a script last summer to clean channels for 
old non-installed packages. You can find it attached, but as I didn't 
use it since, be careful ;)

You have to modify lines 33 to 36 to comply with your spacewalk 
configuration.

regards.

Nicolas PRADELLES
Ingénieur Systèmes & Réseaux
Direction des Systèmes d'Information
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Le 05/03/2013 08:58, Nielsen, Dennis Appelon a écrit :
> Hi Thomas
> I ran the spacewalk-data-fsck -v -r all night, but nothing got delete, I'm still able to find old Fedora 16 packets when I look for them, and the total disk-space there is free is not changed after the run...
>
> Any suggestions to clean-out old repo's would be appreciated...
>
> Regards
>
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> Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Disk usage by Spacewalk repo's is growing and never shrinking
>
> 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 ?
>
> 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
> Dennis Appelon Nielsen | GNU/Linux Consultant | CGI Denmark
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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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