On Jul 23, 2013 3:44 PM, "Ian Wells" <ijw.ubuntu at cack.org.uk> wrote: > > > * periodic updates can overwhelm things. Solution: remove unneeded updates, > > most scheduling data only changes when an instance does some state change. > > It's not clear that periodic updates do overwhelm things, though. > Boris ran the tests. Apparently 10k nodes updating once a minute > extend the read query by ~10% (the main problem being the read query > is abysmal in the first place). I don't know how much of the rest of > the infrastructure was involved in his test, though (RabbitMQ, > Conductor). A great openstack at scale talk, that covers the scheduler http://www.bluehost.com/blog/bluehost/bluehost-presents-operational-case-study-at-openstack-summit-2111 > > There are reasonably solid reasons why we would want an alternative to > the DB backend, but I'm not sure the update rate is one of them. If > we were going for an alternative the obvious candidate to my mind > would be something like ZooKeeper (particularly since in some setups > it's already a channel between the compute hosts and the control > server). > -- > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130723/7522d96b/attachment.html>