[Spacewalk-list] Entire Packages are downloading over the Client side over 800MB for OEL5 Latest Repo [SpaceWalk2.5]

[Tomas Lestach]

I was checking size of repodata on our production machine and I see the 
biggest ones:
362M	/var/cache/rhn/repodata/rhel-x86_64-workstation-6
350M	/var/cache/rhn/repodata/rhel-x86_64-server-6
326M	/var/cache/rhn/repodata/rhel-x86_64-server-6.7.z

rhel-x86_64-workstation-6 contains 19521 packages.

800M repodata looks to be a lot. How many packages are in that channel? 
If it's a public repository, can you share the url, so I can sync it and 
check size the generated repodata and whether I'll find something odd there?

Regards,
--
Tomas Lestach
Red Hat Satellite Engineering

On 08/05/2016 06:36 AM, Malla Reddy Madupu wrote:
> Hi *All*
>
> Environment
> SpaceWalk Version:    2.5
> O/S version:             OEL5.x (Oracle Enterprise Linux)
>
> We are facing an issue with slow repository build for all the OEL5.x
> clients. Inf act client is building 800MB of xml files as below mentioned.
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          1958177         Jul 31 11:00
> updateinfo.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          1302               Jul 31 11:00
> repomd.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          75605328        Jul 31 11:00
> primary.xml.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          149870366     Jul 31 11:00
> filelists.xml.gz
> drwxr-xr-x 2  root root          4096               Aug  4 08:30 packages
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          604397568     Aug  4 08:44
> primary.xml.gz.sqlite
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          1116515         Aug  4 09:29 comps.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          777163776     Aug  5 02:22
> filelists.xml.gz.sqlite
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root          0                            Aug  5
> 03:29 cachecookie
> -rw-r--r-- 1     root root         15                            Aug  5
> 03:54 rhnversion
>
>
> But, I understand that only few MB of xml files should be download. I
> found a bug related to this kind of issue
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729657) however as
> suggested in the bug to upgrade the "yum-rhn-plugin-" will not solve
> this issue. Still client downloading all the files and HOST BECOME
> UNRESPONSIVE. Over the monitoring side host down alerts.
>
> Guys, I really need some direction to sort this issue, your time and
> efforts are greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards
> Malla
>
>
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