[Spacewalk-list] Timeouts with rhnpush and large packages

[David Nutter]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:26:43PM -0400, Pradeep Kilambi wrote:
> David Nutter wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm having some difficulty uploading some Matlab RPMs I made to
> >Spacewalk: rhnpush times out when pushing very large (553Mb in this
> >case) packages. 
> >
> >Interestingly it seems that the physical upload of the package file to
> >/var/satellite succeeds:
> >
> >[davidn at spacewalk yum] $ find /var/satellite/redhat/1 -iname 'matlab*'
> >/var/satellite/redhat/1/187/matlab
> >/var/satellite/redhat/1/187/matlab/7.7-1.el5/x86_64/187b13b86120f2eac40a741e83e8044a/matlab-7.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> >
> >[davidn at spacewalk yum] $ ls -lh 
> >/var/satellite/redhat/1/187/matlab/7.7-1.el5/x86_64/187b13b86120f2eac40a741e83e8044a/matlab-7.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 553M Oct 23 12:46 
> >/var/satellite/redhat/1/187/matlab/7.7-1.el5/x86_64/187b13b86120f2eac40a741e83e8044a/matlab-7.7-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
> >
> >Is it possible to increase the timeout period? My spacewalk server is
> >hosted on a Xen VM using XVDA disk images; consequently disk IO for
> >both uploads and DB access is very slow so I may need a longer timeout
> >than is customary.
> >  
> We dont limit the session from the server side. rhnlib waits for the 
> server response and automatically times out if the server did not 
> respond in a given time.
> 
> try bumping this to higher value and see if that helps:
> 
> # cat /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rhn/SSL.py | grep TIMEOUT
> DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 120

Yep, seems to do the trick, thankyou. I suspect this tweak might also
help when a number of machines all contact Spacewalk at once and make
the system unresponsive enough to trigger the timeout, for example
when using OSAD and scheduling actions immediately. This leads to
actions failing from time to time.

I'll experiment and see. 

Thanks & regards,

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