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On Sep 6, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:
>> running Essex (as packaged) on Ubuntu 12.04 launching new instances
>> has stopped working. They almost imediately enter Error Spawning state
>> which is consistent with my experience of resource starvation in the
>> cluster or scheduling errors.  Most recently I was /var/lib/nova on
>> one of the compute nodes filled but the schedule kept trying to run
>> new instances there (which is it's own issue, but I fixed that for me
>> simply by expanding that partition).  Though in that case they were
>> assigned to that node and then failing, in this case there is no
>> compute node associated with the failed instance.
> 
> I tell a lie, there are all trying to run on the same compute node and
> in this case it has in sufficient memory to run the instance, so it
> shouldn't try to do so.  here are my scheduler options:
> 
> --scheduler_available_filters=nova.scheduler.filters.standard_filters
> --scheduler_default_filters=AvailabilityZoneFilter,RamFilter,CoreFilter,ComputeFilter
> --least_cost_functions=nova.scheduler.least_cost.compute_fill_first_cost_fn
> --compute_fill_first_cost_fn_weight=1.0
> 
> My intention (and what it seems to have been doing) is filling nodes
> based on RAM capacity rather than spreading as the default is.  I do
> believe it shouldn't try and run instances requiring 2G of ram when
> there are only 600M free.
> 
> 

By default, Essex tries to over provision based on memory. Try setting:
--ram_allocation_ratio=1

See http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/admin/content/scheduler-filters.html#ramfilter for more details (including why the over provisioning behavior is actually broken in Essex).


> I can't seem to figure out how to map from id in the compute_nodes
> table to host name or IP though there must be a way,
> hypervisor_hostname seems most likely but that is all NULL, any
> pointers there


Oooh, I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this, but don't remember offhand. Does "nova show <id>" give you this info? 


Take care,

Lorin
--
Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com



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