Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-08 Thread John Zaitseff
Hi, all, > In fact... I think that The Debian Way™ would be to have [the > DB_CONFIG file] in /etc/sks, with a message on top clearly stating > it should be linked from /var/lib/sks/DB (as we Debian people are > often too lazy to look up configuration details in our software > and expect

Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hey dkg! > If you're using a debian system, please compare > /usr/share/doc/sks/sampleConfig/DB_CONFIG with > /var/lib/sks/DB/DB_CONFIG -- if your files differ, i'd be happy to help > you figure out whether the problematic behavior you're seeing could be > attributable to those differences. > >

Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2019-02-06 20:27:28 -0800, Todd Fleisher wrote: > This sounds like you are missing the recommended DB_CONFIG values to > prevent your server from holding into those log files when an issue is > encountered. As I recall, the fix is to start over from scratch and > rebuild after first putting

Re: [Sks-devel] "SKS is effectively running as end-of-life software at this point"?

2019-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2019-02-08 20:44:33 +, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > Parse the syslogs of an old style SKS server, fetch any updated > packets, filter them and submit to the new server. ah yes, the SMOP (it's a "Simple Matter of Programming") argument :) > Sync from the old network to the new one only

Re: [Sks-devel] Unusual traffic for key 0x69D2EAD9 and 0xB33B4659

2019-02-08 Thread Todd Fleisher
To follow up on this, after making the below changes while my main disk IO went down, my load average went up, memory usage went through the roof & swapping ensued. I increased the amount of memory assigned to each of my main nodes (those that gossip with the outside world) and it seems to be

Re: [Sks-devel] "SKS is effectively running as end-of-life software at this point"?

2019-02-08 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 8 Feb 2019, at 19:02, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > Figuring out how to do the partial-sync for a limited time sounds > difficult to me, and i wonder whether it might be better/faster/cheaper > to just deploy such an update-only network, and don't bother with the > partial sync. Parse

Re: [Sks-devel] "SKS is effectively running as end-of-life software at this point"?

2019-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2019-02-07 23:15:18 +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > The current discussions we're having (e.g during OpenPGP email summit in > brussels in october and lately on FOSDEM last weekend) is eventually not > storing UIDs at all on the keyservers, but require the user to do key > discovery