[Bug 1053057] Re: Client queues up lshw calls if talking to old server

[Andreas Hasenack]

** Also affects: landscape-client (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Client queues up lshw calls if talking to old server

Status in Landscape Client:
  Fix Committed
Status in “landscape-client” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  If a 12.04.X or 12.05 client is talking to a server which does not
  support the hardware-info messages (like LDS 11.07.X), it will queue
  calls to lshw in memory.

  If the server the client is talking to is then upgraded (to LDS 12.09,
  for example),  all those lshw calls will happen at once, creating a
  storm of one lshw process per day it was talking to the old server.
  This could be just a few processes, or hundreds, depending on how long
  landscape-client was running and talking to the old server.

  A restart will wipe that queue and is the recommended workaround:
  restart the clients just before upgrading LDS.

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