Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-14 Thread John Marshall
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015, 03:15 -0700, David Benfell wrote: I have just seen way too many problems with Berkeley DB in way too many situations. It seems to be fine for small applications: postfix uses it for really small files, for example. But anything big and it becomes unmanageable.

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-14 Thread David Benfell
Quoting John Marshall john.marsh...@riverwillow.com.au: Perhaps the folks who have BDB problems are the ones who mix keydump and BDB key storage? If this is the case--and I can't rule it out--then there is the problem of how we reliably produce keydumps for new server administrators to

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-14 Thread John Marshall
On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, 23:30 -0700, David Benfell wrote: Quoting John Marshall john.marsh...@riverwillow.com.au: Perhaps the folks who have BDB problems are the ones who mix keydump and BDB key storage? If this is the case--and I can't rule it out--then there is the problem of how we

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-14 Thread James Cloos
JM == John Marshall john.marsh...@riverwillow.com.au writes: JM Perhaps the folks who have BDB problems JM are the ones who mix keydump and BDB key storage? That seems likely. ISTR having issues, too, when I tried a fast. And there was a hickup when my dist updated from 5.1 to 5.3. But

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread Tobias Frei
Hey David, it makes me sad to see you leaving the pool, and I really hope that you'll try to run SKS again in a few years, when the relevant problems might be solved and bugs have been fixed. See you; don't leave us forever! :) Best regards, Tobias Frei On Sat, Apr 11, 2015, 01:31 David Benfell

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread Christian Felsing
Hello David, as desired I removed your server from our membership file. I am running SKS 1.1.5+ on CentOS6 (LXC container) and CentOS7 (KVM) for a long time w/o problems. In the past I had similar problems, but switching clocksource to tsc solved database problems. My current installations are

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread David Benfell
Quoting Christian Felsing c...@ip6.li: Hello David, as desired I removed your server from our membership file. I am running SKS 1.1.5+ on CentOS6 (LXC container) and CentOS7 (KVM) for a long time w/o problems. In the past I had similar problems, but switching clocksource to tsc solved

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread David Benfell
Quoting Hendrik Grewe hendrik.gr...@tu-dortmund.de: Also what I have read about your tries to recover the database. I think I have read in some FAQ that one should _not_ try to recover a (somehow) corrupted sks database. Instead one should start (from skratch) with some actual keydump. Among

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread Arnold
Hi David, On 11-04-15 12:15, David Benfell wrote: Quoting Hendrik Grewe hendrik.gr...@tu-dortmund.de: Also what I have read about your tries to recover the database. I think I have read in some FAQ that one should _not_ try to recover a (somehow) corrupted sks database. Instead one should

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-11 Thread Hendrik Grewe
Hi! As requested I have removed you from my membership file. For informational purpouse: I am running my sks on the tinyest VPS (parallels) from 11 it is a special offer for students, is rate unlimited and costs 1€/year so very very cheap (and powerless 2 gigs ram, 40 gigs discspace 1x2Ghz core).

[Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-10 Thread David Benfell
Hello all, There are a few folks in my membership file for whom I do not have email addresses. This is mostly for them. I have previously commented on the difficulty of keeping the sks database healthy. I just discovered my sks instance had been down for several days. I tried to recover

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-10 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 04/10/15 15:44, David Benfell wrote: I'm giving up. When there is an sks that uses a reliable database system, I'll be happy to rejoin. But Berkeley DB is not sane in my environment, has never proven scalable in any environment I've had in the past, and I'm not messing with it any more.

Re: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com down and out

2015-04-10 Thread David Benfell
Quoting Michael Sinatra michael+li...@burnttofu.net: On 04/10/15 15:44, David Benfell wrote: I'm giving up. When there is an sks that uses a reliable database system, I'll be happy to rejoin. But Berkeley DB is not sane in my environment, has never proven scalable in any environment I've had