yum repo status update

[Michael E Brown]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:40:49PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:09 -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> > Everybody,
> >     We have fixed a small configuration issue with Apache that was
> > causing intermittent connection timeouts to the linux.dell.com website
> > as well as the yum repository. It turns out that we were hitting the
> > Apache client limit of 150 in the default config. This has been bumped
> > to 500. This should resolve this issue. Anybody who was seeing
> > intermittent drops should not see this anymore. Thanks to Matt Domsch
> > for spotting this and correcting it.
> 
> 1. I'm happy to see that the yum repos at dell are so popular you're
> having to raise the defaults on your apache config

Well, the yum repos are not the only thing on these boxes... :) This
mailing list, for instance, is hosted there. Lots of other web pages,
too.

But, I see from the stats, that 21 out of 30 of the top URLs hit were
different pieces of the yum repos.

Hey, that gives me an idea! Do you have any good log-processing scripts
to give yum stats? I looked into this, but it seemed a bit more trouble
than I anticipated.

> 2. Are you gathering stats on the number of unique connections you're
> seeing to the site? If only to make sure the various powers-that-be at
> dell get some info on the customer draw of the work you're doing. 

I have the web logs and periodically post a few aggregate numbers to
relevant people. I dont have space to keep all the logs around, though.

The biggest stat so far is that I now have over 1000 installs of OMSA
5.2 since I posted it in early april.

> I know this is one of the reasons why you've done it but I don't know of
> any other vendor who is doing work like this and I can't help but think
> more people need to hear about it. 

<shameless-self-promotion>

Yeah, I just need to now start a massive publicity push. I have somewhat
of a commitment from marketing to write official support for yum repo
into our product plans... for possible delivery in 2008(!).  It seems
like the only way I am going to get that pulled in is if I get a ton of
people who buy lots of servers tell the appropriate people that they
*really* want this...

</shameless-self-promotion>
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Michael Brown