Re: [osc] Very slow openstack commands in Stein Devstack running on VM

Clark Boylan cboylan at sapwetik.org
Sun Jul 28 15:37:24 UTC 2019


On Sat, Jul 27, 2019, at 9:07 PM, Bernd Bausch wrote:

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> My wild speculation is that the delay has something to do with 
> obtaining a random number, which can be a problem on virtual machines 
> due to their lack of entropy. My knowledge in this area is paper-thin, 
> though. And I wonder what happens to all the Devstacks used in CI?

All of the test VMs run haveged. We preinstall that on our images:

https://opendev.org/openstack/project-config/src/commit/e02cdfa1f489838aa2bb4b449467c0ac4d83645f/nodepool/elements/infra-package-needs/package-installs.yaml#L29


> 
> Thus my questions: *Is the delay really caused by my running the cloud 
> on a VM? What can I do to improve this?*
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bernd
>



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