On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 12:35 -0600, Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Andy Speagle > <andy.spea...@wichita.edu> wrote: > > Hi all... > > > > I've had a problem rear its ugly head today.. and I'm loathe to > explain > > it. Essentially, nearly anything I do in the WebUI times out. I've > > tracked it to a database issue. It seems that I'm running into > table > > contention because anything I try fires up two queries... one SELECT > and > > one UPDATE... the offensive one I believe is the UPDATE.. which is: > > > > update PXTSessions set value=:1, web_user_id=:2, expires=:3 where > id=:4 > > PXTSessions is the way the perl webui handles logged in sessions. It > is > shared with the java webui as well. If you login with no cookies, we > will create > a new entry, each request updates the table to keep the expires date > updated. > If your login times out, but we get presented with the same cookie > value, we simply > update the record again to re-establish the session (if the row > exists). > > So the update above is quite normal. Are you seeing an error?
I don't know if this matters or not... but everything was running fine this morning, until one of my users connected to Spacewalk using an Opera v10.10 browser... everything went sideways after that. The user confirmed that his Opera is configured to accept cookies. > > > > Can anyone speak to this issue? I don't see anything in the > archives > > regarding this. What I think happened is this: > > > > I have some automated jobs that run via cron on the Spacewalk server > as > > the "admin" user... while one of those was running, I logged into > the > > WebUI as the same user... I suspect that somehow these logins were > in > > contention for session info... > > Are these cron jobs using the API? or are they screen scraping the > webui? > In theory, you should be able to login as many times as you want with > the > same user from different locations. It shouldn't affect anything. > > Are all the jobs presenting the same cookie? That would cause them > all to use the same sessions which would probably cause some bizarre > issues. > > Is there an error log in either /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out > or /var/log/httpd/error_log? The cronjobs are using the API. They are package and errata imports. They are all different sessions... different processes. There is nothing out of the ordinary in the catalina.out or apache error_log from what I can see... Thoughts? -- Andy Speagle "THE Student" - UCATS Wichita State University
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