[Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic runs indefinitely without ever generating repodata

Gerald Vogt vogt at spamcop.net
Thu Jul 5 15:48:07 UTC 2018


On 05.07.18 16:05, Matt Moldvan wrote:
> How is the server utilization with respect to disk I/O (something like 
> iotop or htop might help here)?  Maybe there is something else blocking 

My server is basically idle. 99% idle, little disk i/o. It doesn't do anything really.

> and the server doesn't have enough resources to complete.  Have you 
> tried running an strace against the running process?

If it doesn't have enough resources shouldn't there be an exception?

For me, it looks more like something doesn't make it into the database and thus into the persistent state. For instance, I now have the repodata task at "RUNNING" for three days:

Channel Repodata: 	2018-07-02 08:13:10 CEST 	RUNNING

The log file shows this regarding repodata:

> # fgrep -i repodata rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log 
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,584 [Thread-12] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoQuartzHelper - Job single-channel-repodata-bunch-0 scheduled succesfully.
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,636 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - single-channel-repodata-bunch-0: bunch channel-repodata-bunch STARTED
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,651 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] DEBUG com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - single-channel-repodata-bunch-0: task channel-repodata started
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,793 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.ChannelRepodata - In the queue: 4
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,102 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] DEBUG com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - channel-repodata (single-channel-repodata-bunch-0) ... running
> INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,103 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - single-channel-repodata-bunch-0: bunch channel-repodata-bunch FINISHED

So according to the logs the repodata bunch has finished. According to the web interface it has not. Nothing has been updated in /var/cache/rhn/repodata/ either. In addition, those four channels which were still updated haven't been updated either now.

Thanks,

Gerald



> 
> I also had an (well, many) issue(s) with our Spacewalk server before 
> disabling snapshots in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf.  I also increased the number 
> of workers and max repodata work items:
> 
> # system snapshots enabled
> enable_snapshots = 0
> ...
> taskomatic.maxmemory=6144
> taskomatic.errata_cache_max_work_items = 500
> taskomatic.channel_repodata_max_work_items = 50
> taskomatic.channel_repodata_workers = 5
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 4:38 AM Florence Savary 
> <florence.savary.fs at gmail.com <mailto:florence.savary.fs at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     Thanks for sharing your configuration files. They differ very little
>     from mine. I just changed the number of workers in rhn.conf, but it
>     didn't change anything.
> 
>     I deleted all the channels clones not used by any system and dating
>     back from before May 2018, in order to lower the number of channels
>     in the queue. There were 127 channels in the queue before these
>     deletion (indicated in /var/log/rhn/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.log), and
>     there are 361 of them now ... I must admit I'm confused... I hoped
>     it would reduce the number of channels to process and thus "help"
>     taskomatic, but obviously I was wrong.
> 
>     I also noticed that the repodata regeneration seems to work fine for
>     existing channels that are not clones, but it is not working for new
>     channels that are not clones (and not working for new clones but
>     nothing new here).
> 
>     Has anyone got any other idea (even the tiniest) ?
> 
>     Regards,
>     Florence
> 
> 
>     2018-07-04 15:21 GMT+02:00 Paul Dias - BCX <paul.dias at bcx.co.za
>     <mailto:paul.dias at bcx.co.za>>:
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>         Hi,____
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>         Let me post my settings that I have on my CentOS6 server. Can’t
>         remember but I have one or two others, but his is from the top
>         of my head.____
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>         /etc/rhn/rhn.conf____
> 
>         # Added by paul dias increase number of taskomatic workers
>         20180620____
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>         taskomatic.channel_repodata_workers = 3____
> 
>         taskomatic.java.maxmemory=4096____
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>         /etc/sysconfig/tomcat6____
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>         JAVA_OPTS="-ea -Xms256m -Xmx512m -Djava.awt.headless=true
>         -Dorg.xml.sax.driver=org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser
>         -Dorg.apache.tomcat.util.http.Parameters.MAX_COUNT=1024
>         -XX:MaxNewSize=256 -XX:-UseConcMarkSweepGC
>         -Dnet.sf.ehcache.skipUpdateCheck=true
>         -Djavax.sql.DataSource.Factory=org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"____
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>         /etc/tomcat/server.xml____
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>         <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->____
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>              <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3"
>         redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8" address="127.0.0.1"
>         maxThreads="256" connectionTimeout="20000"/>____
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>         __ __
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>              <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3"
>         redirectPort="8443" URIEncoding="UTF-8" address="::1"
>         maxThreads="256" connectionTimeout="20000"/>____
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>         __ __
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>         /usr/share/rhn/config-defaults/rhn_taskomatic_daemon.conf____
> 
>         # Initial Java Heap Size (in MB)____
> 
>         wrapper.java.initmemory=512____
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>         __ __
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>         # Maximum Java Heap Size (in MB)____
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>         wrapper.java.maxmemory=1512____
> 
>         # Adjusted by paul 20180620____
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>         __ __
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>         wrapper.ping.timeout=0____
> 
>         # # adjusted paul dias 20180620____
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>         *From:*Paul Dias - BCX
>         *Sent:* 02 July 2018 06:53 PM
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>         *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>         *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic runs indefinitely
>         without ever generating repodata____
> 
>         __ __
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>         What I have noticed, if you use
>         "spacecmd softchannel_generateyumcache <channel name>" and then
>         go to tasks and run single repodata bunch, you will see it will
>         actually start and generate your channel cache for you on the
>         channel you used the spacecmd  on, this works every time.____
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>         But yes the task logs just show repodata bunch running forever.____
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>         ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>         *From:*Gerald Vogt <vogt at spamcop.net <mailto:vogt at spamcop.net>>
>         *Sent:* Monday, 02 July 2018 9:45 AM
>         *To:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>         *Subject:* Re: [Spacewalk-list] Taskomatic runs indefinitely
>         without ever generating repodata____
> 
>         ____
> 
>         After letting the upgraded server sit for a while it seems only
>         a few of
>         the task schedules actually finish. By now, only those tasks
>         show up in
>         in the task engine status page:
> 
>         Changelog Cleanup:       2018-07-01 23:00:00 CEST         FINISHED
>         Clean Log History:       2018-07-01 23:00:00 CEST         FINISHED
>         Compare Config Files:    2018-07-01 23:00:00 CEST         FINISHED
>         Daily Summary Mail:      2018-07-01 23:00:00 CEST         FINISHED
>         Daily Summary Queue:     2018-07-01 23:00:00 CEST         FINISHED
> 
>         All the other tasks have disappeared from the list by now.
> 
>         The repo-sync tasks seem to work. New packages appear in the
>         channel.
>         However, the repo build is not running or better it seems to never
>         properly finish.
> 
>         If I start it manually, it seems to do its work:
> 
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,584 [Thread-12] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoQuartzHelper - Job single-channel-repodata-bunch-0 scheduled succesfully.
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,636 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - single-channel-repodata-bunch-0: bunch channel-repodata-bunch STARTED
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,651 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] DEBUG com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - single-channel-repodata-bunch-0: task channel-repodata started
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:10 | 2018-07-02 08:13:10,793 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.ChannelRepodata - In the queue: 4
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,102 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] DEBUG com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - channel-repodata (single-channel-repodata-bunch-0) ... running
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,103 [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-8] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.TaskoJob - single-channel-repodata-bunch-0: bunch channel-repodata-bunch FINISHED
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,137 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - File Modified Date:2018-06-23 03:48:50 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,137 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Channel Modified Date:2018-07-02 03:45:39 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,211 [Thread-678] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - File Modified Date:2018-06-23 04:09:51 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:11 | 2018-07-02 08:13:11,213 [Thread-678] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Channel Modified Date:2018-07-02 03:47:55 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:19 | 2018-07-02 08:13:19,062 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Generating new repository metadata for channel 'epel6-centos6-x86_64'(sha1) 14401 packages, 11613 errata
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:13:21 | 2018-07-02 08:13:21,193 [Thread-678] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Generating new repository metadata for channel 'epel7-centos7-x86_64'(sha1) 16282 packages, 10176 errata
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:40:12 | 2018-07-02 08:40:12,351 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Repository metadata generation for 'epel6-centos6-x86_64' finished in 1613 seconds
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:40:12 | 2018-07-02 08:40:12,457 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - File Modified Date:2018-06-19 06:28:57 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:40:12 | 2018-07-02 08:40:12,457 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Channel Modified Date:2018-07-02 04:30:05 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:40:12 | 2018-07-02 08:40:12,691 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Generating new repository metadata for channel 'postgresql96-centos7-x86_64'(sha256) 1032 packages, 0 errata
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:41:51 | 2018-07-02 08:41:51,710 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Repository metadata generation for 'postgresql96-centos7-x86_64' finished in 98 seconds
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:41:51 | 2018-07-02 08:41:51,803 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - File Modified Date:2018-06-20 05:08:38 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:41:51 | 2018-07-02 08:41:51,803 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Channel Modified Date:2018-07-02 04:00:00 CEST
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:41:51 | 2018-07-02 08:41:51,923 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Generating new repository metadata for channel 'postgresql10-centos6-x86_64'(sha512) 436 packages, 0 errata
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:42:26 | 2018-07-02 08:42:26,479 [Thread-677] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Repository metadata generation for 'postgresql10-centos6-x86_64' finished in 34 seconds
>         > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2018/07/02 08:45:01 | 2018-07-02 08:45:01,697 [Thread-678] INFO  com.redhat.rhn.taskomatic.task.repomd.RepositoryWriter - Repository metadata generation for 'epel7-centos7-x86_64' finished in 1900 seconds
> 
>         yet, the task remains in RUNNING. And for whatever reason it
>         only seems
>         to work some channels. I find a total of 20 repos syncing in the
>         logs of
>         the updated server compared to 42 repos syncing in the logs of
>         the old.
>         I don't really see the difference between those 20 repos syncing
>         and
>         those other 22 not. First I suspected channels with custom quartz
>         schedules, but then I found channels in both groups.
> 
>         So I don't know how to troubleshoot this any further. The
>         repodata task
>         which I have started 1,5 hours ago is still at "RUNNING". The
>         channels
>         for which the sync works have been updated. I don't know why it
>         is still
>         running. Server load is back down...
> 
>         Thanks,
> 
>         Gerald
> 
>         On 22.06.18 19:12, Gerald Vogt wrote:
>         > I have the same problem after upgrading from 2.6 to 2.8 on CentOS 6.9. I 
>         > have even increased the memory as suggested by that link but it makes no 
>         > differences. None of the scheduled tasks are running. I can run a bunch 
>         > manually. But the scheduler doesn't seem to work. Last execution times 
>         > on the task engine status pages are still at timestamps from before the 
>         > upgrade. -Gerald
>         > 
>         > 
>         > 
>         > On 22.06.18 14:15, Avi Miller wrote:
>         >> Hi,
>         >>
>         >>> On 22 Jun 2018, at 5:51 pm, Florence Savary 
>         >>> <florence.savary.fs at gmail.com
>         <mailto:florence.savary.fs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         >>>
>         >>> When using taskotop, we can see a line for the channel-repodata task, 
>         >>> we see it is running, but there is never any channel displayed in the 
>         >>> Channel column. We can also see the task marked as running in the 
>         >>> Admin tab of the WebUI, but if we let it, it never stops. The task 
>         >>> runs indefinitely, whithout ever doing anything.
>         >>
>         >> If you've never modified the default memory settings, Taskomatic is 
>         >> probably running out of memory and task is crashing. This is a known 
>         >> issue, particularly when you sync large repos.
>         >>
>         >> I would suggest increasing the memory assigned to Taskomatic to see if 
>         >> that resolves the issue. You will need to restart it after making 
>         >> these changes: 
>         >> https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E92593_01/E90695/html/swk24-issues-memory.html
>         >>
>         >> Cheers,
>         >> Avi
>         >>
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>         >>
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