Re: [Sks-devel] Big amount of updated keys yesterday?

[John Clizbe]

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Sebastian Wiesinger wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> yesterday I noticed that my SKS Server was constantly updating it's
> key database for over an hour. This also showed in the stats:
> 
> Daily Histogram
> Time    New Keys        Updated Keys
> 2011-04-12      74      65
> 2011-04-11      365     7678
> 2011-04-10      280     137
> 
> 
> Hourly Histogram
> Time    New Keys        Updated Keys
> 2011-04-12 02   13      8
> 2011-04-12 01   15      6
> 2011-04-12 00   46      51
> 2011-04-11 23   15      5
> 2011-04-11 22   15      5
> 2011-04-11 21   62      3419
> 2011-04-11 20   2       3597
> 2011-04-11 19   9       505
> 2011-04-11 18   19      18

Also seen here:

2011-04-11 15   13      3
2011-04-11 14   63      2169
2011-04-11 13   5       101
2011-04-11 12   24      17
2011-04-11 11   14      5
2011-04-11 10   14      4047
2011-04-11 09   31      1257
2011-04-11 08   13      5

> Does anyone know what happened yesterday and where the updates came
> from?

My first big hit came from pgp.surfnet.nl ~0930 CDT (US/Central - UTC-5:00)

2011-04-11 08:39:14 2892 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [18.9.60.141]:17311>
2011-04-11 09:16:59 25 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [84.45.72.144]:11371>
2011-04-11 09:20:25 No hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [88.198.253.20]:11371>
2011-04-11 09:21:22 No hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [174.142.142.17]:11371>
2011-04-11 09:23:25 No hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [88.198.253.20]:11371>
2011-04-11 09:27:05 No hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [70.85.129.92]:11371>
2011-04-11 09:28:51 No hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [46.4.253.199]:11371>
2011-04-11 09:31:44 7298 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET 
[145.100.185.229]:11371>
2011-04-11 10:47:30 5329 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [64.15.152.44]:11371>
2011-04-11 11:14:01 5308 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET 
[178.63.246.167]:11371>
2011-04-11 12:25:28 5292 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET 
[79.143.214.216]:11371>
2011-04-11 12:55:47 4961 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [69.134.27.135]:11371>
2011-04-11 13:50:16 1308 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET 
[178.63.246.167]:11371>
2011-04-11 14:11:17 1918 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET 
[174.142.142.17]:11371>
2011-04-11 14:21:57 1904 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET 
[178.63.246.167]:11371>
2011-04-11 14:49:55 297 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [79.143.214.216]:11371>
2011-04-11 14:51:47 12 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [174.142.142.17]:11371>
2011-04-11 14:54:42 461 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [192.168.0.5]:11371>
2011-04-11 14:57:16 No hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [204.13.164.120]:11371>
2011-04-11 14:58:39 264 hashes recovered from <ADDR_INET [178.63.246.167]:11371>


> Also this took over an hour and almost exclusively used all the I/O to
> the disks in the system. Is there a way to increase the performance
> for updates in the key db?

Reads, usually yes. Writes, not so much. :-(

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