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Hi,

Just wanting to bump this thread to see if we can
get some discussion going as the patch for adding the API
for this functionality is waiting on only this.

Do any ops people think this is going to be an issue. Can I take
silence to mean that no one cares either way? :-)

Chris

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:14:16 +1100
Michael Still <michael.still at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 10/30/2012 08:57 AM, Christopher Yeoh wrote:
> 
> > Eg. if as I think its not possible to optimise large
> > creation/deletes then is it ok if only admin users can access the
> > API and that they should know better than to do this in the first
> > place? 
> > 
> > Or should I attempt to simply reject any requests where there are
> > too many ips being deleted/created at one time? (eg /24 as the
> > biggest bulk request?)
> 
> Sorry to re-awaken an old thread, but I was just chatting with Chris
> on IRC and I think this is an issue. A /16 with this code currently
> takes several minutes to create -- and its entirely possible that
> people will create something bigger.
> 
> Do we think people will deploy this with a special API server just for
> admin requests, or just use the existing server?
> 
> I suspect we should limit the size of creation requests to a /24 and
> have the client chunk. Its not too much more inefficient, and smooths
> the load on the API server.
> 
> I'd like to see more discussion of this to be honest.
> 
> Mikal

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