[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxies failing to serve large packages

[Michael Calmer]

Hi,

Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2015, 17:52:29 schrieb Matthew Madey:
> I'm seeing an issue with packages 300MB and larger being served by
> Spacewalk proxies. When I run yum install on a client, it gets to 97% of
> the download or so and fails with the below message:
> 
> Error Downloading Packages:
>  somepackage.x86_64: failed to retrieve getPackage/somepackage.x86_64.rpm
> from rhel-x86_64-server-6-datacenter
> error was [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 18 - "transfer closed with 1499666 bytes
> remaining to read"
> 
> Looking at the Spacewalk proxy, I see the below error:
> 
> [Fri May 08 18:42:28 2015] [error] [client 172.20.165.201] mod_wsgi
> (pid=9403): Exception occurred processing WSGI script
> '/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/xmlrpc.py'.
> [Fri May 08 18:42:28 2015] [error] [client 172.20.165.201] IOError: failed
> to write data
> 
> Here's what I've tried so far with no luck:
> 
> 1. Increase max_object_size parameter in squid.conf to 500MB
> 2. Turn on KeepAlive parameter in httpd.conf
> 3. Increase KeepAlive timeout in httpd.conf to 120 seconds
> 4. Increase Timeout in httpd.conf to 120 seconds

What about the timeout parameter in rhn.conf (server and proxy) and in up2date 
conf (for yum - or was it in a special yum config file?)

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Regards

	Michael Calmer

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