Description of problem: running rhnpush for 300MB package took in the order of an hour. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHN Satellite 3.2 (from build 12 ISO). How reproducible: Seen on two different systems. Actual results: With rpm package file initially located locally on the Satellite, running rhnpush successfully uploads the package but it takes much longer than expected. The first time this delay was seen to take over an hour. The second time, while not measured, was consistent with the first (different systems, different places). Expected results: Additional info: Satellite host has an embedded Oracle configuration. It is a dual CPU system and has 2GB RAM.
How big is the RPM? Was the upload happening over SSL? (i.e. did the URL say https://)?
Package in question is 231MB. The rhnpush command indicates that upload is to http://<hostname>/APP. On one occasion when the upload was occuring at the same time as a satellite-sync the system hung and was showing iterations of the following message on the console: "count_ramdisk_pages: pagemap_lru_lock locked". When that occured the system had only 1GB RAM. Subsequently the system was upgraded to 2GB and the rhnpush succeeded, but the time was still excessive. Kernel version 2.4.9-e.41smp. rhnpush of small packages (<2MB) is very quick (< 4 seconds) on the same system.
another data point. rhnpush of a 13MB package took ~24 seconds (all other variables being unchanged).
We have this specific problem (big rpms taking a lot of time to upload) addressed in satellite 3.4 The change cannot be backported easily to 3.2. Will keep the bug open and will see how we can upgrade the customer or something.
I encountered this issue after applying all updates (kernel included) to stock RHEL2.1U3 version. rhnpush of 220MB package taken over 30 mins. Whereas, with just the standard RHEL2.1U3 packages with no updates applied rhnpush of the same package (220MB) took just under 2 minutes.
May be kernel related, downgraded to kernel 2.4.9-e.34enterprise (standard RHEL2.1U3 kernel) and rhnpush now takes 1min 40secs to import 220MB package.
For lack of a better answer, closing.