[Openstack-operators] max_age and until_refresh for fixing Nova quotas
Kris G. Lindgren
klindgren at godaddy.com
Fri Mar 20 13:35:23 UTC 2015
Can you post of you cronjob/script that you use to correct the quotas?
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Kris Lindgren
Senior Linux Systems Engineer
GoDaddy, LLC.
On 3/20/15, 4:18 AM, "Sam Morrison" <sorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>We¹ve had the following for a year or so but doesn¹t help much, we still
>see it occurring every 10 mins or so.
>
>max_age = 10
>until_refresh = 5
>reservation_expire=600
>
>We have a cron job that runs every 10 mins that figures out what projects
>are out of sync and corrects them.
>We¹ve always been scared of setting these to zero but we probably should.
>
>Sam
>
>
>> On 15 Mar 2015, at 2:53 pm, Mike Dorman <mdorman at godaddy.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah the default is just Œ0¹ for both, which disables the refresh.
>>
>>
>>
>> The one downside is that it may not be 100% transparent to the user.
>>If
>> the quota is already (incorrectly) too high, and exceeding the quota
>> limit, the reservation that triggers the refresh will still fail. I.e.
>> the reservation is attempted based on the quota usage values _before_
>>the
>> refresh. But then after that the quota should be fixed and it will
>>work
>> again on the next reservation.
>>
>> But my thinking is that most quota issues happen slowly over time. If
>>we
>> are correcting them often and automatically, they hopefully never get
>>to
>> the point where they¹re bad enough to manifest reservation errors to
>>the
>> user.
>>
>> I don¹t have any information re: db load. I assume it regenerates
>>based
>> on what¹s in the instances or reservations table. I imagine the load
>>for
>> doing a single refresh is probably comparable to doing a Œnova list¹.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/14/15, 2:27 PM, "Tim Bell" <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting... what are the defaults ?
>>>
>>> Assuming no massive DB load, getting synced within a day would seem
>>> reasonable. Is the default no max age ?
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Jesse Keating [mailto:jlk at bluebox.net]
>>>> Sent: 14 March 2015 16:59
>>>> To: openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] max_age and until_refresh for
>>>>fixing
>>>> Nova
>>>> quotas
>>>>
>>>> On 3/14/15 8:11 AM, Mike Dorman wrote:
>>>>> I did short write-up here http://t.co/Q5X1hTgJG1 if you are
>>>>>interested
>>>>> in the details.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for sharing Matt! That's an excellent write up.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -jlk
>>>>
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