That's a kind offer! My python scripting is pretty much non-existent so I would probably cause more collateral damage than I fixed! I'm going to have a look through a python book over the weekend for some ideas but if we can get this down in the roadmap for future releases that would be great. Rgds, Henry Michael DeHaan wrote: > Henry Kemp wrote: >> Hi - I'm just starting to explore Func and I'm seeing something a bit >> strange with the CopyFile module. >> >> I'm running Func on a couple of Centos 5.1 (2.6.18) with Func 0.17. >> >> I've transfered a small file (eg. /etc/hosts to /tmp/hosts on target >> minion) and that works ok but when I try to transfer a larger file (eg. >> c170MB) memory/CPU utilization goes towards 100% for a few seconds >> before going back to normal and the command then seems to hang >> interminably. >> > > Looking at the implementation, it looks like it would be bad for large > file transfer. > > Interested in working on that? :) > > Ideally it would include a client side module and make several smaller > write calls to avoid timeouts, possibly > using the async API, though that may not be neccessary. > > >> Looking at the audit.log on the minion the small file is logged as a >> success but the large file doesn't even seem to make it to the minion. >> >> I'm assuming its doing a checksum before transferring the file from what >> I can see of the documentation and a quick look at copyfile.py. >> >> Am I doing something wrong by trying to transfer a file of this size >> through func? >> >> Rgds, >> >> Henry _______________________________________________ Func-list mailing list Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list
