Satellite under a heavy load of "Bulk generate applicability for hosts" tasks
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
postgresalso 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 6.14.0 and earlier
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