On 11.03.2013 16:21, Coffman, Anthony J wrote: > Is anybody else seeing 500 errors on 1.9? > > We've had ridiculous numbers (300-400) of Postgres IDLE connections since the > 1.7 release but it seems they've reach new heights in Spacewalk 1.9. I just > ran a package refresh on 30 DEV systems and the Postgres connection count got > up to around 1000 before things completely fell apart. > > Max client for Postgres is currently set to 1200 (was 500 in 1.8). > > Symptom is 500 errors that look something like this. > > Exception Handler Information > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/apacheHandler.py", > line 80, in headerParserHandler > rhnSQL.initDB() > File > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py", line > 102, in initDB > __init__DB(backend, host, port, username, password, database) > File > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/__init__.py", line > 55, in __init__DB > __DB.connect() > File > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_postgresql.py", > line 174, in connect > return self.connect(reconnect=0) > File > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_postgresql.py", > line 163, in connect > password=self.password) > SQLConnectError: (None, None, 'spaceschema', 'Attempting Re-Connect to the > database failed') > > Local variables by frame > Frame connect in > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_postgresql.py > at line 179 > self = <type 'instance'> > <spacewalk.server.rhnSQL.driver_postgresql.Database instance at > 0x7f75ea5617e8> > e = <class 'psycopg2.OperationalError'> server > closed the connection unexpectedly > This probably means the server terminated abnormally > before or while processing the request. > could not send startup packet: Broken pipe > > reconnect = <type 'int'> 0 > > Frame connect in > /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/spacewalk/server/rhnSQL/driver_postgresql.py > at line 174 > self = <type 'instance'> > <spacewalk.server.rhnSQL.driver_postgresql.Database instance at > 0x7f75ea5617e8> > e = <class 'psycopg2.OperationalError'> server > closed the connection unexpectedly > This probably means the server terminated abnormally > before or while processing the request. > could not send startup packet: Broken pipe > > Thanks and regards, > --Tony
Hi, try updating the python-psycopg2 package. A newer one was released with RHEL 6.4 (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0327.html). The old one had problems with ref-counting and leaked connections. For me the problem with high connection count was solved by the update. Regards Patrick -- Lobster LOGsuite GmbH, Münchner Straße 15a, D-82319 Starnberg HRB 178831, Amtsgericht München Geschäftsführer: Dr. Martin Fischer, Rolf Henrich _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
