Metadata reloading every 15 minutes after 4.1.5 upgrade

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Thu Feb 17 12:51:09 UTC 2022


On 2/17/22, 6:03 AM, "users on behalf of Robert Hardy (r.hardy)" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of r.hardy at yorksj.ac.uk> wrote:

>    I have noticed, from the output of status.bat, though, that it seems to be the service which is restarting,
> rather than simply the metadata reloading (start_time is always within the last 15 minutes, and consistently at
> 00,15,30 and 45 minutes past the hour):

Yes, I assumed so, because otherwise it wouldn't be doing anything but a conditional GET and not bothering to do any work.

The simplest workaround is just to stop using the aggregate nobody should be using that with an IdP anymore. That won't fix it, but the server won't do anything that significant when it reloads an MDQ definition but force some new fetches while handling requests.

Is there any filesystem evidence metadata-providers.xml is actually changing? If not, that doesn't suggest to me it's reloading normally anyway. For this to happen, it would have to be improperly refreshing, and improperly believing it had to refresh it at all. That's hard to really believe.

-- Scott




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