[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk 2.0 UI shows repo cache continually in-progress

[Tomas Lestach]

> INFO | jvm 1 | 2015/01/15 16:13:33 | 2015-01-15 16:13:33,010
> [Thread-53] INFO
> com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Generating
> new repository metadata for channel 'oraclelinux6-x86_64'(sha256)
> 23357 packages, 1644 errata

Hello,

I have some notes to this case:

* your channels are quite large, it can take really a *long* time to
re-generate repodata for that many packages
* if you do not see any tracebacks in the taskomatic log, I'd assume
the task still runs
* log message:
[DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-9] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.ChannelRepodata - In the queue: 1
I would read as: taskomatic works on repo re-generation (on one or two in parallel - not sure, what was the default in Spw2.0) and one is still in the queue to be picked up, after the current channel repodata are finished
* upgrade to latest released Spacewalk is recommended, I think the repodata part was enhanced since Spacewalk 2.0

> But I never see a corresponding log entry (like the following) where
> it finished like this one… actually this is last one I can find in
> looking back in the logs, so this has been broken for some time.
> 
> INFO | jvm 1 | 2014/12/12 04:19:14 | 2014-12-12 04:19:14,612
> [Thread-6912] INFO
> com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Repository
> metadata generation for 'oraclelinux6-x86_64' finished in 142
> seconds

* I suppose, in Dec last year, there were not over 23 thousand packages in the channel


Regards,
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Tomas Lestach
Red Hat Satellite Engineering, Red Hat