Bug 653615

Summary:	cobbler sync is ~20x's slower
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	Kal McFate <kmcfate>
Component:	Provisioning	Assignee:	Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) <jpazdziora>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version:	530	CC:	cperry, jpazdziora, mmello
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Description Kal McFate 2010-11-15 19:44:38 UTC

Description of problem:
After upgrade to cobbler-1.6.6-15.el5sat the 'cobbler sync' command is ~20 times slower than it was.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cobbler-1.6.6-15.el5sat

How reproducible:
Populate cobbler with large amount of systems. And try to do a sync. The tftp file generation takes a lot longer making the sync extremely slow.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. populate cobbler with systems (we have >4000)
2. run cobbler sync

  
Actual results:
cobbler sync takes over 10 minutes to finish

Expected results:
downgrade to 1.6.6-8 and it takes less than 30 seconds.

Additional info:
Tracing the processes shows the delay in the generation of the tftpboot files. It takes ~100 milliseconds per system.

Comment 1 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2010-11-15 22:43:07 UTC

Flipping component to provisioning.

Comment 2 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2010-11-15 22:44:06 UTC

Kal, could you please raise the issue with support as well?

Comment 3 Kal McFate 2010-11-16 13:13:26 UTC

A support case has been created.

Comment 4 Kal McFate 2011-01-19 15:19:53 UTC

This seems to be resolved with Satellite 5.4. It uses Cobbler 2.x and there are no noticeable delays with safe_templating on or off.

Comment 5 Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2011-01-19 15:36:04 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> This seems to be resolved with Satellite 5.4. It uses Cobbler 2.x and there are
> no noticeable delays with safe_templating on or off.

Kal, is upgrade to Satellite 5.4 a viable option for you?