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List:       cobbler
Subject:    Re: [cobbler] Cobbler API - slow with many hosts
From:       James Cammarata <jimi () sngx ! net>
Date:       2012-06-22 15:36:18
Message-ID: CAFgbs7f4v9GYRvo7RVXHyTG8nT_+VEH10G3LszStnYDfvKSrnQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Sean Carolan <scarolan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How many systems? What kind of disk is the system running on? If it's
>> a slower SATA type, you might look at relocating the /var/lib/cobbler
>> directory to another partition, especially if your server is busy
>> (lots of http requests to /var/www for instance).
>
> It's about 3000 systems.  This is actually a sync'd copy of a
> production system that doesn't get any http requests at all.  It's
> running in VMware, and I have a feeling that the bottleneck here is
> the back-end storage.  It takes about 15 seconds just to do this:
>
> allservers = xmlrpclib.Server("http://localhost/cobbler_api").get_systems()

Yeah, if you have the ability I'd recommend a raw device mapped LUN.
That will speed things up considerably.
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