[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk Proxies failing to serve large packages

[Matthew Madey]

Stephen, that was exactly it! Thank you!

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Stephen Herr <sherr at redhat.com> wrote:

> Oh, I bet you're running out of space in /tmp and hitting this behavior:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158193
>
> Proxy 2.0 and on stores large files in /tmp instead of in-memory, since
> people were having problems where they ran out of memory and then the
> Out-Of-Memory killer would kill httpd. Proxy 2.3 adds an config option
> that allows you to better control the in-memory vs on-disk size limit,
> but the best solution is probably just to extend your /tmp partition.
>
> -Stephen
>
>
> On 05/11/2015 02:39 PM, Matthew Madey wrote:
> > Thanks for the responses. No, there are no other proxies between the
> > Spacewalk Proxy and client, and I don't have any timeout settings
> > specified in rhn.conf, yum.conf, or up2date.
> > If I register the client directly to the Spacewalk server, I'm able to
> > download the package without an issue.. so the problem definitely lies
> > in the caching mechanism of the Spacewalk proxy. What concerns me is the
> > below error I see on the Spacewalk Proxy when attempting to retrieve the
> > package.
> >
> > [Fri May 08 18:42:28 2015] [error] [client 172.20.165.201] mod_wsgi
> > (pid=9403): Exception occurred processing WSGI script
> > '/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/xmlrpc.py'.
> > [Fri May 08 18:42:28 2015] [error] [client 172.20.165.201] IOError:
> > failed to write data
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:21 AM, Michael Calmer <mc at suse.de
> > <mailto:mc at suse.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >
> >     Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2015, 17:52:29 schrieb Matthew Madey:
> >     > I'm seeing an issue with packages 300MB and larger being served by
> >     > Spacewalk proxies. When I run yum install on a client, it gets to
> >     97% of
> >     > the download or so and fails with the below message:
> >     >
> >     > Error Downloading Packages:
> >     >  somepackage.x86_64: failed to retrieve
> >     getPackage/somepackage.x86_64.rpm
> >     > from rhel-x86_64-server-6-datacenter
> >     > error was [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 18 - "transfer closed with
> >     1499666 bytes
> >     > remaining to read"
> >     >
> >     > Looking at the Spacewalk proxy, I see the below error:
> >     >
> >     > [Fri May 08 18:42:28 2015] [error] [client 172.20.165.201] mod_wsgi
> >     > (pid=9403): Exception occurred processing WSGI script
> >     > '/usr/share/rhn/wsgi/xmlrpc.py'.
> >     > [Fri May 08 18:42:28 2015] [error] [client 172.20.165.201]
> >     IOError: failed
> >     > to write data
> >     >
> >     > Here's what I've tried so far with no luck:
> >     >
> >     > 1. Increase max_object_size parameter in squid.conf to 500MB
> >     > 2. Turn on KeepAlive parameter in httpd.conf
> >     > 3. Increase KeepAlive timeout in httpd.conf to 120 seconds
> >     > 4. Increase Timeout in httpd.conf to 120 seconds
> >
> >     What about the timeout parameter in rhn.conf (server and proxy) and
> >     in up2date
> >     conf (for yum - or was it in a special yum config file?)
> >
> >     --
> >     Regards
> >
> >             Michael Calmer
> >
> >
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