Great stuff, Swift contributors! -jay
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:20 AM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: > A quick note to talk about what's been going on with swift since the diablo > release. > > Swift 1.4.2 was the openstack diablo release. Since then, we've had three > releases. We've done quite a bit of small bug fixes and general polish, and > I'd like to highlight some of the bigger improvements we've made. > > First, we'e included a new tool in swift called swift-recon. This is a > combination of a scripts and middleware for the object-server, and it allows > the swift cluster to report on its own health. For example, using > swift-recon, you can find out the disk utilization in the cluster, socket > utilization, load stats, async pending stats, replication stats, and > unmounted disks info. It's a great tool that gives you good insight into > important metrics in your swift cluster. Florian Hines designed and wrote > this tool. > > On the bug-fixing front, we saw a memory leak error under high load at large > scale. In short, the Python garbage collector was not always freeing memory > associated with a socket when a client would disconnect early. This would > cause the proxy servers to run out of memory after a few days of use. Greg > Holt spent quite a bit of time finding and fixing this error. > > We've also included two new tools for managing production clusters > (swift-orphans and swift-oldies). These tools are used to find potential > issues with long-running swift processes. These tools were written by Greg > Holt. > > That brings us to our current release. All of the above-mentioned changes are > available in swift 1.4.5 (released earlier this week). I'd also like to > highlight another exciting update that was just merged into swift today and > will be included in the swift 1.4.6 release: temp urls and form uploading. > > With this new feature, you will be able to craft a temporary URL that grants > a user limited access to your swift account. For example, you can craft a URL > to your swift cluster that grants PUT access to a particular container for > the next 30 minutes. You can use this in conjunction with HTML forms to > directly upload content from a browser into swift (without having to proxy > the data on your web servers). This feature has been requested by many and > was written primarily by Greg Holt with input from David Goetz and Greg Lange. > > We're halfway through the openstack essex release cycle. I'm excited about > the improvements we've made to swift, and I expect some more exciting things > to come before our final essex release is made. As always, patches welcome! > > John Dickinson > Swift Project Technical Lead > notmyname on IRC > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
