[OpenStack-Infra] [openstack-infra][CI][tempest] Tempest tests time duration.

Abhishek Shrivastava abhishek at cloudbyte.com
Sat Jul 25 17:41:18 UTC 2015


Hi John,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I am new to Gate scripts so can you please
tell me how to do all the stuffs you mentioned.

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:02 PM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com
> wrote:

> One other thing that's come up in the past in addition to caches etc is if
> you're using qemu mode.
>
> Use the Gate as a benchmark to figure out if you really have a significant
> delta to begin with though.
> On Jul 24, 2015 5:06 PM, "Jerry Zhao" <xyzjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Also the disk's write and read speed can affect the test speed a lot,
>> even the result, because tempest is io intensive tests, creating/deleting
>> vms and images.
>> Check the dstat log to see if there is large iowait number.
>>
>>
>> On 07/24/2015 02:08 PM, Clark Boylan wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015, at 11:41 PM, Abhishek Shrivastava wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I am running CI using Ramy's guide and when the tempest test is running
>>>> in
>>>> CI, I found out that the tests are taking muc more time than usual. So,
>>>> is
>>>> there any way to reduce its time period or its just natural.
>>>>
>>>>  How long are the tests taking and what times are you comparing that
>>> against? Upstream tempest full runs can take up to an hour (including
>>> the devstack deploy). We run those tests on 8vcpu 8GB RAM single use
>>> test VMs.
>>>
>>> Things that can make tests run faster include caching git repos and the
>>> appropriate operating system packages. Ensuring that you are using real
>>> virt and not qemu. Making sure that your test nodes are large enough and
>>> do not swap when running the tests.
>>>
>>> All that said it is really hard to know without more info.
>>>
>>> Clark
>>>
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*Thanks & Regards,*
*Abhishek*
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