In fact, both of you are correct. When passing '--limit -1' to the Nova client, it will issue multiple requests to the API using the --marker option until it receives no more data [1]. So the server-side limit (osapi_max_limit parameter) isn't by-passed, it's just the client that deals with it. BR, Simon
[1] https://github.com/openstack/python-novaclient/blob/stable/mitaka/novaclient/v2/servers.py#L723-L755 On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:28 AM, David Medberry <openst...@medberry.net> wrote: > I don't think --marker does at all what I want. The --limit -1 does doe > multiple successive queries (with a marker) automagically returning a > single list as CLI output to nova list. That really IS what I want (and > what some of our automation is written around.) > > Thanks! > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:26 PM, James Downs <e...@egon.cc> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 04:37:42PM -0600, David Medberry wrote: >> >> > It seems to bypass it... or I'm running into a LOWER limit >> (undocumented). >> > So help on limit -1 says it is still limited by osapi_max_limit >> >> You're looking for: >> >> --marker <marker> The last server UUID of the previous page; >> displays list of servers after "marker". >> >> This is much faster than increasing the size of results, at least in >> sufficiently >> large environments. >> >> Cheers, >> -j >> > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > >
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