Satellite under a heavy load of "Bulk generate applicability for hosts" tasks

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • At random times, Satellite CPU usage substantially grows, having even impact to stability / performance or client requests.
  • A health check reveals many pending "Bulk generate applicability for hosts" tasks running for a long time
  • postgres also shows higher CPU usage and logs huge slow statements (see Diagnostic steps)

How to make the tasks faster? What is the purpose of the tasks?

Environment

Red Hat Satellite 6

Subscriber exclusive content

A Red Hat subscription provides unlimited access to our knowledgebase, tools, and much more.

Current Customers and Partners

Log in for full access

Log In

New to Red Hat?

Learn more about Red Hat subscriptions

Using a Red Hat product through a public cloud?

How to access this content