Performance issue during yum metadata repo cache generation on RHN Satellite
Issue
- Server becomes unresponsive
- Server started getting crushed by many httpd processes
- Load on the server goes as high as 150
- High CPU and memory consumption
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Server load spikes when client systems check in to the server
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Delay in Satellite packages being available to client
Environment
- Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 4.2.x, 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 5.2.x
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Red Hat Network (RHN) 5.3.x if the default configuration for repository metadata generation has been changed from the default to mimic behavior on pre-5.3.x releases
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 clients checking in to the Satellite server via yum commandline or yum-updatesd, etc.
- Large deployment - environments with a high number of client systems registered to the Satellite are more likely to see the issue
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