[Spacewalk-list] Oracle XE reached 4GB Limit

[Sabuj Pattanayek]

How did you know you hit the 4gb limit?

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Rampersad, Shaun
<Shaun.Rampersad at rmb.co.za> wrote:
>
> Rampersad, Shaun wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've been using spacewalk to manage my centos servers. I have a mix of
>>> Centos 4 and 5, both 32 and 64 bit. I have created channels for each one
>>> of them and have over 100 servers registered.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is that the Oracle XE DB has reached its 4GB limit. How can
>>> I get around this? Do I need to delete all "old" packages from the
>>> repository and then delete the channel and upload?
>>
>>I do not have any solutions to offer other than trying to trim/purge old
>>system profiles and packages.
>
> I have deleted the Centos4 i386 channels since I only had 6 servers registered on this. I have also deleted about 3000 orphaned packages on spacewalk under "Manage Software Packages" but I still cannot load newer packages on Centos 5 channel. Its as if the delete did not free up the DB space and it is still on 4GB
>
> Anything else I can try? I wanted to delete the Centos4 x86_64 bit channel as well but if it has no effect then its pointless.
>
> Thanks
> Shaun
>
>>
>>
>>> Are there any alternatives to Oracle XE? Has there been any progress on
>>> Postgres? I see that this is scheduled for release on spacewalk 2.0.
>>
>>Postgres is progressing, slowly, but we have achieved a point where it
>>can install and some very basic functionality seems to work, but it is
>>not even in an alpha state. More information:
>>
>>https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-devel/2010-October/msg00017.html
>>
>>Spacewalk nightly can be installed without Oracle bits (developers only)
>>
>>NOTE: developers only...
>>
>>Cliff
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