On 05/11/2015 07:13 AM, Attila Fazekas wrote: >> From: "John Garbutt" <john at johngarbutt.com> >> * From the RPC api point of view, do we want to send a cast to >> something that we know is dead, maybe we want to? Should we wait for >> calls to timeout, or give up quicker? > > How to fail sooner: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/oslo.messaging/+bug/1437955 > > We do not need a dedicated is_up just for this. Is that really going to help? As I understand it if nova-compute dies (or is isolated) then the queue remains present on the server but nothing will process messages from it. Chris