[Satellite6] WebUI shows more Capsule pulp workers than configured

Environment

Red Hat Satellite 6.9 or older

Issue

• an external Capsule is configured with 4 workers
  • PULP_CONCURRENCY is really set to 4 in /etc/default/pulp_workers on the Capsule
• WebUI shows 6 workers instead (Infrastructure -> Capsules -> the capsule -> Services -> workers value)

Why there is such difference?

Resolution

WebUI shows number of pulp celery workers increased by 2 every time. To check the number, decrement 2 from the "workers" number.

The bug is tracked under This content is not included.this bugzilla but it was closed as of low priority.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Pulp 2.0 Issues, please refer to the Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Pulp 2.0-related Issues

Root Cause

Satellite queries the Capsule for pulp status that returns also list of pulp "workers". This list contains - among real pulp celery workers - also resource_manager and scheduler celery processes. These are This content is not included.wrongly included in the workers count in WebUI.

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