[Openstack-operators] max_age and until_refresh for fixing Nova quotas
Simon McCartney
simon at mccartney.ie
Fri Mar 20 15:21:40 UTC 2015
FYI, we’ve been using https://github.com/osops/tools-generic/pull/4 in a
Grizzly era environment.
On 20 March 2015 at 13:35, Kris G. Lindgren <klindgren at godaddy.com> wrote:
> Can you post of you cronjob/script that you use to correct the quotas?
> ____________________________________________
>
> 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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