Bug 470234

Summary: (kickstart) Installation is unreasonably slow
Product: [Community] Spacewalk Reporter: John Hodrien <johnh>
Component: ServerAssignee: Justin Sherrill <jsherril>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version: 0.2CC: jesusr, mmccune
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Description John Hodrien 2008-11-06 12:28:49 UTC
Description of problem:

Installation takes much longer than a normal kickstart.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Everytime.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Run a kickstart install without overriding the url

Actual results:

Install takes ages, especially grabbing the headers of the packages while it's preparing to install.  This leads to a very long period before any package has actually been installed.  With a large install this pre-install step can take an hour!

Expected results:

Install should be as snappy as if I wasn't using spacewalk.

Additional info:

This appears to be because all the rpm requests go through a wrapper, so requests go to (for example):

/ty/3K7BjfcP/CentOS/tmpwatch-2.9.7-1.1.el5.1.x86_64.rpm

If I just make available the dvd image that I'd pushed with make-ks-tree.sh directly on the webserver, and point the spacewalk install to it (using the url kickstart parameter) these accesses are no longer wrapped, and the install is *much* faster, and also puts noticeably less load on the server.

If these calls are to be wrapped, they'd better be done so efficiently.

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora 2008-11-06 12:42:29 UTC
Changing Component from Installation (which is really meant to cover installation of the Spacewalk Server) to Server.

Comment 2 Jesus M. Rodriguez 2009-02-24 21:01:20 UTC
changed summary to mention kickstart which is different than spacewalk installation.

Comment 3 Jesus M. Rodriguez 2009-02-24 21:06:43 UTC
*** Bug 472595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Mike McCune 2009-02-24 22:32:07 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 472595 ***

Comment 5 Mike McCune 2009-02-24 22:32:30 UTC
I actually was doing all the work in 472595 so I'm closing this one out.