[Openstack] openstack on RHEL 6.1

2011-05-25 Thread David Robinson
Hi All, Several people have reported on IRC that they can't get openstack working on RHEL 6.1. Starting the openstack-nova-network service (and various others) causes this traceback: (nova): TRACE: File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/subprocess.py", line 725, in communicate (nova): TRACE: stdout, st

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Eric Day
Hi Jay, On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 03:40:27PM -0400, Jay Pipes wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Greg Holt wrote: > > select w from x where y > marker order by y limit z > > > > This gives you consistent pagination, means the database doesn't have to > > count matching rows to find an offse

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 16:27 -0400, William Wolf wrote: > I personally like Jay's proposal (except maybe keeping 'pages' out for > now in favor of just having 1 way to do things, rather than many ways > to do the same thing), but feel that the term 'marker' should maybe be > renamed. Maybe 'timesta

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread William Wolf
OpenstackPaginationEmail I think there is a lot of confusion in the two uses of the word 'marker', and maybe under Jay's proposal we need another word for 'marker'. Suppose we have the following images: PK Created_atUpdated_at Deleted_at 1 2011-05-25 1

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Greg Holt wrote: > Okay, I give up then. Not sure what's different with what you have vs. Swift > dbs. Just trying to offer up what we do and have been doing for a while now. The pagination in Swift is not consistent. Inserts into the Swift databases in between t

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
Okay, I give up then. Not sure what's different with what you have vs. Swift dbs. Just trying to offer up what we do and have been doing for a while now. On May 25, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Greg Holt wrote: >> select w from x where y > marker order b

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Greg Holt wrote: > select w from x where y > marker order by y limit z > > This gives you consistent pagination, means the database doesn't have to > count matching rows to find an offset, and means you could shard by y later > in life if you need to scale that m

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
select w from x where y > marker order by y limit z This gives you consistent pagination, means the database doesn't have to count matching rows to find an offset, and means you could shard by y later in life if you need to scale that much. On May 25, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > On W

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Greg Holt wrote: > Okay cool. Just stop using the term offset anywhere in your examples then and > drop the whole page= thing as well. :) Sorry, I'm not understanding what you're getting at here. The offset is required to pass to the database query as the OFFSET

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack API, Reservation ID's and Num Instances ...

2011-05-25 Thread Sandy Walsh
Actually, myself and Soren were talking about this over IRC earlier today. Soren has a theory that we may not even need respond back to the caller for a "you win" decision to be made. The receiving compute node could just act on it straight away. I think he's correct. If you can't handle the req

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
Okay cool. Just stop using the term offset anywhere in your examples then and drop the whole page= thing as well. :) On May 25, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: > I'm not proposing using marker/limit over offset/limit. I'm proposing > using marker/limit/offset over searching manually through a

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack API, Reservation ID's and Num Instances ...

2011-05-25 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On May 25, 2011, at 4:41 AM, Sandy Walsh wrote: > > - We'd need to create a per-Flavor FanOut queue. Some Compute nodes would > express their interest in handling the request and we'd, somehow, need to > decide which one gets the work. Who would decide that? How could they do it > without cre

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
I'm not proposing using marker/limit over offset/limit. I'm proposing using marker/limit/offset over searching manually through a giant set of results looking for a marker and then grabbing the next few results. ;) On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Greg Holt wrote: > Also, using marker/limit rathe

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Greg Holt
Also, using marker/limit rather than offset/limit makes it much easier to shard for scale if desired. One of the reasons we chose that route with Swift. Regular databases with indexes work better with marker/limit than offset/limit too. On May 25, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote:

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
This is what happens when I braindump a bunch of stuff into an email... I get myself confused :) I'm proposing the following. Please pick the strategy apart: 1) Pass the LIMIT and OFFSET parameters down into the database API queries 2) Add a default ORDER BY for all queries returning result sets

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Justin Santa Barbara wrote: > The SQL query using the PK would look like this (and there's no need for an > OFFSET clause): > SELECT * > FROM > ORDER BY > WHERE > @marker > AND () > LIMIT > Without additional filters, that's a _very_ efficient query for a sensi

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
I misspoke in my original email. Marker should be the timestamp of the initial query. -jay ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https

Re: [Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Justin Santa Barbara
I definitely agree that the paging logic is questionable; we definitely should be specifying the sort order if we're relying on it, as I believe a database is otherwise free to return results however it sees fit. I'm not convinced that the proposed logic around the queries and update timestamps is

[Openstack] Getting pagination right

2011-05-25 Thread Jay Pipes
When a user issues a GET request for a resource collection, it's clear that you don't want to return ALL results in the collection. Returning hundreds of thousands of records per request isn't particularly a good idea. Therefore, we use the concept of "pagination" -- returning a subset of records

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack API, Reservation ID's and Num Instances ...

2011-05-25 Thread Sandy Walsh
Heh, you're right, I was completely mistaken :) That's a really cool idea Soren! One of problems we're faced with is keeping instances from the same customer off a single compute node. We want to spread them out to lessen the impact of machine failure. In order to solve this we needed to put a