Updated the wiki... https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/JabberAndOSAD
Should have everything in there now. Let me know if you guys have any questions. -Josh On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 12:42 -0500, Stroehmann, James wrote: > I’m having the same issues, and have put a couple of band-aids in > place as workarounds. Would moving jabber from berkely db to mysql or > postgres help this? > > > > > > > From:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com > [mailto:spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stephen > Benjamin > Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 10:04 PM > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Endless osad issues > > > > > > Josh, > > Thanks, I think the cronjob will work for the dead osad problem, and > my idle fix will keep them from going into the phantom connection > state. So far our deployment has been only a few hundred servers with > Satellite, I just worry about this solutions scalability. Even > 2-3,000 servers constantly re-connecting every 10 minutes when the > idle timeout hits or the cronjob restarts the service seems like a bad > idea. > > > - Steve > > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM, <josh.mul...@cox.com> wrote: > > Steve, > > I was able to resolve some similar issues the other day and will > update the wiki sometime tomorrow hopefully. > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/spacewalk-list@redhat.com/msg03702.html > > > I also have a cronjob on all my clients that restarts osad and runs > rhn_check roughly every 4 hours randomly. > > I also have rhnsd disabled on the clients. > > It's a lotta crap, but it has been working flawlessly for several > weeks. > Scheduled actions get picked up on 250+ servers within 5 mins. > > > Let me know if this works for you. > > I'll try to update the wiki with everything hopefully by this weekend. > > Good luck > -Josh > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com > <spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> > To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com <spacewalk-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Wed Feb 10 20:03:17 2010 > Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Endless osad issues > > Hi Steve > > Unfortunately, I can't offer any useful advise other than to log this > with RedHat GSS. If lots of people do this then maybe the problem > will be fixed sooner. > > FWIW, I'd like func to replace osad sooner rather than later also. > There used to be an entry on the roadmap > (https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/roadmap) with func on the timeline > but it's gone now. > > CC > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Stephen Benjamin <skbe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I inherited a Satellite system with a couple of proxies, and have > had > > endless issues with osad. I finally fixed it and it was working > well for a > > whole week. The exact issue I was having was this: > > https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/JabberAndOSAD. Changed the > idle > > timeout to 600 and except for an increase in traffic, it works ok, > but not > > great (since at disconnect, the osads wait up to 120 seconds to > reconnect, > > so effectively giving my osads 80-90% uptime -- better than the > previous of > > near-zero). > > > > Now I came in yesterday and osad on 300+ boxes were just dead - > service osad > > status showed pid file existed, but osad not running. No idea why, > no logs > > were generated on any of those boxes or on the Satellite server. > Jabberd's > > were fine. Any ideas? > > > > osad is really unreliable, and I'm not the only one. Is there any > priority > > on replacing it with Func someday? > > > > > > > > - Steve > > > > -- > > Stephen Benjamin > > skbe...@gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spacewalk-list mailing list > > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > > > > > -- > RHCE#805007969328369 > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > Spacewalk-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list > > > > > >
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