Description of problem:
Publishing more than one content view is consuming servers IO (mongodb process consumes 50 - 200 MB/s). Content views are relatively small - contains 2 - 4 repositories. DB is located on SAN storage.

Publishing takes a long time and ends wit timeout error.

Satellite is running on vm with 16 CPUs and 16 GB RAM.


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

Issue reproduced by Chris Roberts:

"I am seeing the same issue with iscsi storage with 2 content views publishing with 2 rhel 7 repos:

34369 mongodb   20   0 12.585g 900368 774608 S 122.2  5.5 226:20.70 mongod
37837 apache    20   0 1126532 464796   4764 S  27.8  2.9 234:28.87 celery
30432 root      20   0  157944   2448   1500 R  16.7  0.0   0:00.05 top
37802 apache    20   0 1126968 255972   3800 S  16.7  1.6  16:42.71 celery
37842 apache    20   0 1125776 250672   4740 S  16.7  1.5  15:00.31 celery
"
It seems that external storage is the issue here.

Actual results:
Publishing more content views takes a long time and ends with timeout.

Expected results:
Acceptable publishing time and no timeout.