[Sks-devel] Moving SKS to a different host

[Tyler Schwend]

Building the sks database from a dump takes a very long time, a lot of disk 
space, and a lot of CPU. Is there a way to just move the whole BDB from one 
host to another? I am switching hosts.

On August 3, 2014 4:16:22 AM EDT, address@hidden wrote:
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>Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:06:03 +0200
>From: Pete Stephenson <address@hidden>
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>Subject: [Sks-devel] Questions regarding blocking with regards to
>       stats   generation & gossip
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>Hi all,
>
>I was reviewing the mailing list archives recently and had a few
>questions:
>
>1. From what I've read, generating DB stats block the DB and SKS does
>not respond to search/submit queries while the generation is ongoing.
>
>What happens to queries during the blocking period? Are they rejected
>or
>dropped? Do they hold waiting for the DB to come back online?
>
>In my case, the server is using Apache as a reverse proxy. It uses an
>SSD for storage, so stats generation takes <5 seconds or so. Is it
>problematic to generate stats more frequently than once per day?
>
>2. SKS can only gossip with one peer at a time. Additional gossip
>traffic made while the server is gossiping with another peer fail and
>must be retried.
>
>Is there some optimal number of peers that a server should have that
>would balance between increasing the degree of interconnection and
>gossip collisions? Is there a critical number of peers beyond which
>collisions become an issue?
>
>Cheers!
>-Pete
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>From: David Benfell <address@hidden>
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>Subject: [Sks-devel] sks.disunitedstates.com
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>Hi all,
>
>sks.disunitedstates.com is down and it is taking me much longer
>than anticipated to bring it back up.
>
>I have been having severe performance issues on the server in
>Munich and am moving to a new, bigger server, closer to home, in
>Sebastopol, (Northern) California.
>
>I am also changing operating systems. I noticed that FreeBSD runs
>in much less memory and am discovering that its job scheduling is
>much more to my taste.
>
>The bad news is that when I try to build the sks database from the
>dump from the old system, I get a segmentation fault. I am rebuilding
>nearly every piece of software on the system (there were other
>issues as well that made an upgrade from 10.0-RELEASE advisable) and
>hoping I can make this go away.
>
>If anyone else has encountered this, what did you do to fix it?
>
>Thanks!

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