Re: [Sks-devel] malformed entry?

[Olaf Gellert]

Peter Palfrader wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed the following in my .db log:
>
> 2004-03-02 03:00:00 Calculating DB stats
> 2004-03-02 03:02:33 Malformed entry 
> 2004-03-02 03:02:33 Malformed entry 
> 2004-03-02 03:02:34 Malformed entry 
> 2004-03-02 03:02:34 Malformed entry 
> 2004-03-02 03:02:34 Malformed entry 
> 2004-03-02 03:02:34 Malformed entry 
> 2004-03-02 03:02:34 Malformed entry 
> [...]
> 2004-03-02 03:02:34 Done calculating DB stats
>
> keyserver.noreply.org is running 1.0.6-pre2 currently.  Any idea what
> might cause this?

These messages seem to indicate some incorrect entries
in one of the configuration files. Those in log.db
are usually related to sksconf, those in log.recon
to the membership file. Would be good to have a
better documentation about what to put into the
sksconf (for example, I use "initial_stats: 1",
but thats is just guessing, maybe "initial_stats:"
would be sufficient, I don't know exactly).
Anyone has a good example file that could be
used as a basis for documentation?

> Also I noticed that on keyserver-old.noreply.org calculating DB stats
> takes almost an hour.  It has slow IO (due to encrypted filesystems) but
> an hour is really long.  Is there anything I can do to make it faster?
> It's a fastbuilt database, if that's of importance.

Not sure. Our stats take only about one or two minutes.
Maybe you are right, we did a build and no fastbuild.

Olaf

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