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On 01/15/2014 11:56 AM, Steven Dake wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ken'ichi Omichi submitted a change [1] in devstack to change the 
> default log level to 1 for libvirt.  This results in continual spam to 
> /var/log/messages in my development system, even after exiting 
> devstack.  The spam looks like:
> "
> Jan 14 08:13:49 bigiron libvirtd: 2014-01-14 15:13:49.334+0000: 1480: 
> debug : virFileClose:90 : Closed fd 8
> Jan 14 08:13:49 bigiron libvirtd: 2014-01-14 15:13:49.334+0000: 1480: 
> debug : virFileClose:90 : Closed fd 9
> Jan 14 08:13:49 bigiron libvirtd: 2014-01-14 15:13:49.334+0000: 1480: 
> debug : virFileClose:90 : Closed fd 10
> Jan 14 08:13:49 bigiron libvirtd: 2014-01-14 15:13:49.334+0000: 1480: 
> debug : virFileClose:90 : Closed fd 11
> "
> in a continual loop
>
> I submitted a change [2] that sets the default to level 2 (info + 
> warnings + errors) which was -1'ed by Sean Dague.  His suggestion was 
> to take the discussion upstream so consensus around what the default 
> should be can be made so this doesn't end up getting changed every week.
>
> The core mission of devstack is to provide a development environment 
> for developers.  The fact that it is being used in the gate seems 
> somewhat ancillary to it's mission, and forcing a default of "spam the 
> system logs with tons of libvirt messages" seems counter to the core 
> mission of devstack.  As is, without modification devstack makes 
> looking at anything useful in my system logs impossible without grep 
> -v libvirt and is intrusive to developer's workstations.
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63992/ 
> <https://review.openstack.org/#/c/63992/>
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/66630/
Why not just make this a shell variable/localrc option that defaults to 
the original and have the gate jobs set it to debug?

  -David

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