Lots of Bulk generate applicability tasks are stuck and causing performance issues after upgrading to Red Hat Satellite 6.17
Issue
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After upgrading to the Red Hat Satellite 6.17, it behaves much slowly during the time of OS patching or after some content-management activities were performed. A high CPU load was observed on the server around those times.
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A huge amount of
Bulk generate applicability
(Actions::Katello::Applicability::Hosts::BulkGenerate
) tasks are generated, and either they are taking way too much time to complete or else completely stuck.
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6.17 ( upgraded from 6.16 )
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