[Spacewalk-list] taskomatic and regeneration of repo meta data

[Matt Bryant]

All,

We are seeing an issue where repo metadata is not being processed, which 
has been made more visible since setting up a dev channel populated by 
rhnpush. This channel updated frequently yet systems not always seeing 
new package even though there in the gui. When we restart taskomatic 
generally we see queued ChannelRepodata tasks

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/06/11 10:19:03 | 2014-06-11 10:19:03,809 
[DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-6] INFO 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.ChannelRepodata - In the queue: 3

and finally sees channel modifications

INFO   | jvm 1    | 2014/06/11 10:19:04 | 2014-06-11 10:19:04,282 
[Thread-51] INFO com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter 
- File Modified Date:2014-06-10 23:55:51 EST

and off it goes again and starts the regeneration process but not sure 
why its taking sometimes before it actually sees these modifications. 
Other times is sees the modifications fine and regenerates .. the 
inconsistency is frustrating and cant track down whats causing it. Even 
upped to DEBUH in the rhn_taskomatic.conf but nothing useful seen, JVM 
pings all being seen ok .. ErrataMailer processes.

Seeing plenty of mail outs about errata but seems like the repo/yum 
metadata tasks just stop being processed or sidelined. Have tried 
searching for information about taskomatic but there doesnt seem much 
information out there.

Anyone have any ideas what could be causing this ?? Is there a way to 
view tasks in the queue ?? Am wondering whether the 
com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.ErrataMailer is just overloading system 
.. is there anyway to just have this done once a day ?? Any help / 
pointer to useful doco would be appreciated.

rgds

Matt Bryant