[Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Christian Reiß
Hey folks, I have some questions on which I need some pointers. First, -nodiskptree: To my understanding this would result in longer startup-times, more memory consumption but faster lookups. So the ptree is generated, but kept in ram. Final analysis: Enabling this option would speed up lookups

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Tobias Frei
Hi Christian, thank you for offering the dumps! :-) About the -nodiskptree option... please correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't the operating system's disk reading cache render this option useless? At least it seems to be like this on my Kubuntu desktop - with sufficient free memory, I can

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 11.02.2014 08:38, Christian Reiß wrote: [...] Also I am using puppet to deploy the sks server. Anyone else using puppet? membership file (et all) is managed over hiera. So if we have any puppet3 users I am glad to share. Lastly, I wrote a (10 liner) php-script that queries the sks-keyserver

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/11/2014 10:48 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: By default stats are updated once a day, for more than this you need to send a USR2-signal to sks. In particular, you need to send USR2 to sks db, not sks recon. And note that while sks db is calculating stats, it cannot serve HKP requests.

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/11/2014 04:53 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 02/11/2014 10:48 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: By default stats are updated once a day, for more than this you need to send a USR2-signal to sks. In particular, you need to send USR2 to

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Benny Baumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am 11.02.2014 16:59, schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: On 02/11/2014 04:53 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 02/11/2014 10:48 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: By default stats are updated once a day, for more than this you need to send a

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/11/2014 01:58 PM, Benny Baumann wrote: Am 11.02.2014 16:59, schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: Unless you run it in a clustered setup where the different members calculate it on different times and the frontend passes the request on before timeout :p Its almost instantly for my maschine

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/11/2014 08:19 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 02/11/2014 01:58 PM, Benny Baumann wrote: Am 11.02.2014 16:59, schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: Unless you run it in a clustered setup where the different members calculate it on different

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Adam Lewicki
Hi there, Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net: On a pretty decent machine (zimmermann.mayfirst.org), i'm seeing the following duration in the logs: 2014-02-11 19:17:17 Calculating DB stats 2014-02-11 19:17:49 Done calculating DB stats so that's over half a minute of blocked

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Benny Baumann
Hi, Am 11.02.2014 20:19, schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: On 02/11/2014 01:58 PM, Benny Baumann wrote: Am 11.02.2014 16:59, schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: Unless you run it in a clustered setup where the different members calculate it on different times and the frontend passes the request on

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning

2014-02-11 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 02/11/2014 02:19 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 02/11/2014 01:58 PM, Benny Baumann wrote: Am 11.02.2014 16:59, schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: Unless you run it in a clustered setup where the different members calculate it on different times and the frontend passes the request on before

Re: [Sks-devel] Tuning Help for 1.1.2 and BDB 4.8

2011-12-08 Thread Sebastian Wiesinger
* Sebastian Wiesinger sks-de...@ml.karotte.org [2011-12-05 22:12]: Hi, I'm setting up sks 1.1.2 with bdb 4.8 on a Debian 64bit Box. Any specific tuning ideas for the database (or other parts as well)? I want to get it right and I'm confused what to do to get the best performance out of