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Keystone is certainly CPU bound while doing crypto operations
(authentication, token creation, token validation, etc), so we're
experimenting with pypy now, but don't have any strong interest in the gate
jobs running *currently*. We might want to add one for keystone at some
point, though.

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
wrote:

> On 11 May 2015 at 23:51, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
> > It appears that we've basically run out of interest / time in
> > realistically keeping pypy working in our system.
> >
> > With the focus on really getting python 3.4 working, it seems like it
> > would just be better to drop pypy entirely in the system. In the last
> > couple of years we've not seen any services realistically get to the
> > point of being used for any of the services. And as seen by this last
> > failure, pypy is apparently not keeping up with upstream tooling changes.
>
> So pypy is useful for clients - so that folk using pypy can talk to
> OpenStack. I don't have a view on the servers today - certainly the
> majority of our servers are not CPU bound.
>
> I asked for volunteers on Twitter - people that about openstack and
> pypy, and got two, one of whom helped us with the current glitch -
> which was all fixed by using modern virtualenv, so it was easy :).
>
> I've put a web page together summarising my understanding of the
> situation: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/PyPy
>
> I think we should make the jobs voting again (checking that each one
> is passing first, of course).
>
> -Rob
>
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