Building the sks database from a dump takes a very long time, a lot of disk space, and a lot of CPU. Is there a way to just move the whole BDB from one host to another? I am switching hosts.
On August 3, 2014 4:16:22 AM EDT, [email protected] wrote: >Send Sks-devel mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > >You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Sks-devel digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Questions regarding blocking with regards to stats generation > & gossip (Pete Stephenson) > 2. sks.disunitedstates.com (David Benfell) > 3. Re: sks.disunitedstates.com (Daniel Austin) > 4. Re: sks.disunitedstates.com (David Benfell) > 5. Re: sks.disunitedstates.com (David Benfell) > 6. Re: Questions regarding blocking with regards to stats > generation & gossip (Yaron Minsky) > 7. Rationalization (Was: Questions regarding blocking ...) > (Kiss Gabor (Bitman)) > 8. Re: Rationalization (Was: Questions regarding blocking ...) > (Robert J. Hansen) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:06:03 +0200 >From: Pete Stephenson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Sks-devel] Questions regarding blocking with regards to > stats generation & gossip >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hi all, > >I was reviewing the mailing list archives recently and had a few >questions: > >1. From what I've read, generating DB stats block the DB and SKS does >not respond to search/submit queries while the generation is ongoing. > >What happens to queries during the blocking period? Are they rejected >or >dropped? Do they hold waiting for the DB to come back online? > >In my case, the server is using Apache as a reverse proxy. It uses an >SSD for storage, so stats generation takes <5 seconds or so. Is it >problematic to generate stats more frequently than once per day? > >2. SKS can only gossip with one peer at a time. Additional gossip >traffic made while the server is gossiping with another peer fail and >must be retried. > >Is there some optimal number of peers that a server should have that >would balance between increasing the degree of interconnection and >gossip collisions? Is there a critical number of peers beyond which >collisions become an issue? > >Cheers! >-Pete > >-------------- next part -------------- >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >Name: signature.asc >Type: application/pgp-signature >Size: 553 bytes >Desc: OpenPGP digital signature >URL: ><http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sks-devel/attachments/20140802/826156de/attachment.pgp> > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 15:06:43 -0700 >From: David Benfell <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Hi all, > >sks.disunitedstates.com is down and it is taking me much longer >than anticipated to bring it back up. > >I have been having severe performance issues on the server in >Munich and am moving to a new, bigger server, closer to home, in >Sebastopol, (Northern) California. > >I am also changing operating systems. I noticed that FreeBSD runs >in much less memory and am discovering that its job scheduling is >much more to my taste. > >The bad news is that when I try to build the sks database from the >dump from the old system, I get a segmentation fault. I am rebuilding >nearly every piece of software on the system (there were other >issues as well that made an upgrade from 10.0-RELEASE advisable) and >hoping I can make this go away. > >If anyone else has encountered this, what did you do to fix it? > >Thanks! -- _______________________________________________ Sks-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel
