Re: [Pulp-list] Changing working_directory and/or reducing disk utilization during sync

Thanks Michael! I appreciate the response. Oracle seems to have their own special way of doing things, for sure. On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > I just looked at the repo, and other.xml is 720MB compressed!!! Wow! I > wonder what's in there. > >

Re: [Pulp-list] Changing working_directory and/or reducing disk utilization during sync

I just looked at the repo, and other.xml is 720MB compressed!!! Wow! I wonder what's in there. For comparison, just for fun, I checked RHEL 6.8. The other.xml file there is under 5MB compressed. The setting to change where the working directory lives is intended to help in a scenario where

Re: [Pulp-list] Changing working_directory and/or reducing disk utilization during sync

> > The short answer is that if you need to sync Oracle Linux sync one distro > at a time and leave enough space. Yes, I understand and suspected as much. My question was primarily about setting the working_directory setting in server.conf, since this does not seem to be well documented.

Re: [Pulp-list] Changing working_directory and/or reducing disk utilization during sync

This may be unrelated to the sync problem - but do you have the export distributor configured on that repo? It doesn't affect syncing at all, but there is a publish operation at the end of the sync. The export distributor tries hard to burn all your CPU while running mkisofs (for my usecase we

[Pulp-list] Changing working_directory and/or reducing disk utilization during sync

Hello all, I am running Pulp 2.9.2. We are facing issues with our /var filesystem filling up when we do our nightly syncs - in particular, when we sync the Oracle Linux channel: http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/latest/x86_64/ Syncing this one repo uses 5+ GB of space on /var