Re: [Openstack] Memory meters from ceilometer

2013-07-19 Thread Eoghan Glynn
ince they had been documented here in the official ceilometer > measurements > page<http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ceilometer/measurements.html>. > Thanks for your enlightenment! > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > > > H

Re: [Openstack] Memory meters from ceilometer

2013-07-18 Thread Eoghan Glynn
. I have enabled instance > usage auditing in my nova.conf <http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5887592/>. Is > there anyway I could get these meters(memory and disk utilization) for VM's > provisioned using OpenStack? > > Thanks for your efforts. > > > On Thu, J

Re: [Openstack] Memory meters from ceilometer

2013-07-18 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hey Jobin, Thanks for your perceptive question. The reason is that the conduits for gathering CPU metering and memory metering are quite different in ceilometer currently: * cpu/cpu_util are derived by polling the libvirt daemon * memory is derived from the "compute.instance.exists" notificati

Re: [Openstack] Summit Runners

2013-04-11 Thread Eoghan Glynn
+1 Thanks, Eoghan - Original Message - > G'day, > > > Would anyone be interested in morning runs (5K) during the Summit in PDX next > week? > > If you are, let's meet in the lobby of the Portland Hilton on Sixth Avenue at > 0600 on Monday and 0700 from Tuesday to Friday. > > Some of

Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] [metering][ceilometer] Unified Instrumentation, Metering, Monitoring ...

2012-11-07 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Here's a first pass at a proposal for unifying StackTach/Ceilometer > and other instrumentation/metering/monitoring efforts. > > It's v1, so bend, spindle, mutilate as needed ... but send feedback! > > http://wiki.openstack.org/UnifiedInstrumentationMetering Thanks for putting this together S

Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] meter data volume

2012-11-01 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > What would be the best way to achieve this? A small sqlite DB > > per-agent, or even simpler just a pickled dict? The latter would > > avoid the complexity of DB versioning and migration. > > At the risk of repeating myself, can I stress again how much we don't > need to transform cumulative

Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] meter data volume

2012-11-01 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > if you have: > > > > Time | Value > > 0 | 10 > > 1 | 30 > > 2 | 50 > > 3 | 80 > > 4 | 100 > > > > If your delta-pollster is down at 1 and 2, you restart at 3, > > therefore at 4 you'll send "20" as usage (100 minus 80). > > So you miss the delta between 10 (time 0) and 80 (time 3) > > (ther

Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] meter data volume

2012-10-31 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > Would we have also have some 'misses' with the cumulative approach > > when the ceilometer agent was down? > > No, unless the counter resets several times while your agent is down. > But delta has the same issue. > > > If I understood the (\Sigma local maxima)-first idea correctly, > > the

Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] meter data volume

2012-10-31 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> If your pollster is not running to compute delta and you have > no state stored, you'll miss a part of what has been used. Would we have also have some 'misses' with the cumulative approach when the ceilometer agent was down? If I understood the (\Sigma local maxima)-first idea correctly, the

Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] meter data volume

2012-10-31 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > I don't think (max - min) would suffice to give an accurate > > measure of the actual CPU time used, as the counter may have > > reset multiple times in the course of the requested duration. > > It is, because /max in the API should be aware of the fact a > reset can occur and computes acco

Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] meter data volume

2012-10-31 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Not at all. It means the CPU time consumed is reset to 0, but > that's not an issue in itself, the API should be capable to > deal with that if you ask for the total usage. Would that total usage be much more apparent if we started metering the delta between CPU times on subsequent polling peri

Re: [Openstack] [ceilometer] meter data volume

2012-10-31 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Yawei Wu, The root of the confusion is the fact the cpu meter is reporting the cumlative cpu_time stat from libvirt. This libvirt counter is reset when the associated qemu process is restarted (an artifact of how cpuacct works). So when you stop/start or suspend/resume, a fresh qemu process

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack] Ceilometer API Glossary

2012-10-23 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> I am testing ceilometer in my devstack virtual machine. Although I > can see the meter data model in the mongodb, I am confused about > some glossary when I test its Web API. I am not very clear about the > " resource" in the " GET /v1/resources",either "source" in the "GET > /v1/sources/(sourc

Re: [Openstack] Discussion / proposal: Ability to reset tenant's quotas to default

2012-10-09 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> My point was that if a user is currently configured to have a quota > of 50 VMs, and the default is currently configured to be 20 VMs then > there is a difference between "configuring the user to have a quota > of 20" and "configuring a user to have the default quota".The > first is just a s

Re: [Openstack] Discussion / proposal: Ability to reset tenant's quotas to default

2012-10-09 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Isn't that just changing one custom limit with another ? > > A true reset to the defaults would see the user stay in step with any > changes to the default values. Do you mean configured changes to the defaults? AFAIK 'nova quota-defaults' returns the current set of defaults, which seems to

Re: [Openstack] Discussion / proposal: Ability to reset tenant's quotas to default

2012-10-09 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> HI All, > > > > I would like to open a discussion on a topic user should have a > option to reset the tenant’s quotas( to the default). Hi Vijaya, I don't think a new nova command is needed for this use-case, just add a simple custom script: nova quota-update `nova quota-defaults $1 | t

Re: [Openstack] One potential issue on the normalize_time() in timeutils

2012-09-10 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Thanks Yunhong for pointing this issue out and submitting a patch in quick order. Your reasoning for switching from if offset to if offset is None, in order to avoid including the offset==0 case, makes perfect sense. You'll just have to propose the change first to openstack-common, from where it

Re: [Openstack] boot command fails

2012-09-04 Thread Eoghan Glynn
012-09-04 13:09:16 TRACE nova.api.openstack rv = list(rv) > 2012-09-04 13:09:16 TRACE nova.api.openstack File > "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/rpc/amqp.py", line 304, in > __iter__ > 2012-09-04 13:09:16 TRACE nova.api.openstack self.done() > 2012-09-04 13:09:16 TRACE no

Re: [Openstack] A plea from an OpenStack user

2012-09-04 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> I think its great that we're having this discussion. +1, excellent discussion in terms of both tone & content. > In the hope that its informative, I'd like to give some info on > issues > we're looking at when moving our Glance deployment to Folsom. A lot > of > this is in common with Ryan,

Re: [Openstack] Unable to start NOVA VOLUME

2012-09-03 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > I have Installed Nova Volume in the Openstack Essex Controller. But > > When I restart the nova-volume service, I get the following error > [...] > > 2012-09-03 12:26:22 TRACE nova OperationalError: (OperationalError) > > (1054, "Unknown column 'volumes.instance_id' in 'field list'") > > >

Re: [Openstack] Unable to start NOVA VOLUME

2012-09-03 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> I have Installed Nova Volume in the Openstack Essex Controller. But > When I restart the nova-volume service, I get the following error [...] > 2012-09-03 12:26:22 TRACE nova OperationalError: (OperationalError) > (1054, "Unknown column 'volumes.instance_id' in 'field list'") Hi Trinath, One

Re: [Openstack] boot command fails

2012-09-03 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> While trying to create a VM instance on openstack, the boot command > (nova boot) returns the following error: > --- > ERROR: The server has either erred or is incapable of performing the > requested operation. (HTTP 500) > --- > everything seems to be working (nova services are starting). > >

Re: [Openstack] Glance image add error

2012-07-25 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Can you provide relevant glance-api and -registry log excerpts? Also probably best to track this as a glance question[1] or bug[2]. Cheers, Eoghan [1] https://answers.launchpad.net/glance [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance - Original Message - > > Hello > > I'm getting this error

Re: [Openstack] AWS CreateImage compat

2012-07-25 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Jorge, What version are you testing against? I recently got a series of patches onto master that addressed a bunch of issues in the EC2 CreateImage support, so that it now works smoothly with volume-backed nova instances: https://review.openstack.org/9732 https://review.openstack.org/98

Re: [Openstack] quota question

2012-07-20 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > Would that address your requirement? > > I think so. If these acted as a hard limit in conjunction with > existing quota constraints, I think it would do the trick. I've raised this a nova blueprint, so let's see if it gets any traction: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/flavo

Re: [Openstack] quota question

2012-07-20 Thread Eoghan Glynn
lementation lean. > > Kiall > On Jul 20, 2012 3:48 PM, "Eoghan Glynn" < egl...@redhat.com > wrote: > > > > > The harder part is that we need to be able to specify > > independent/orthogonal quota constraints on different flavors. It > > would

Re: [Openstack] quota question

2012-07-20 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> The harder part is that we need to be able to specify > independent/orthogonal quota constraints on different flavors. It > would be really useful to be able to say basically, you can have 2TB > of memory from this flavor, and 4TB of memory from that flavor. This > would allow saying something l

Re: [Openstack] quota question

2012-07-20 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> We're running a system with a really wide variety of node types. This > variety (nodes with 24GB, 48GB, GPU nodes, and 1TB mem nodes) causes > some real trouble with quotas. Basically, for any tenant that is going > to use the large memory nodes (even in smaller slices), we need to set > quotas

Re: [Openstack] Nova and asynchronous instance launching

2012-06-29 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Right - examining the current state isn't a good way to determine > what happened with one particular request. This is exactly one of > the reasons some providers create Jobs for all actions. Checking the > resource "later" to see why something bad happened is fragile since > other opertaons mig

Re: [Openstack] Nova and asynchronous instance launching

2012-06-29 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Note that I do distinguish between a 'real' async op (where you > really return little more than a 202) and one that returns a > skeleton of the resource being created - like instance.create() does > now. So the latter approach at least provides a way to poll on the resource status, so as to fi

Re: [Openstack] [Continuous-Integration] What else is running on the Jenkins slaves?

2012-06-26 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Thanks for the quick response ... > Very basic things, not much other than the Jenkins Slave service and > SSH. Nothing that should cause conflicts that you are seeing. We > also intentionally only run one test run per slave at a time. Interesting, seems the alternate explanation of a lag-on-

[Openstack] [Continuous-Integration] What else is running on the Jenkins slaves?

2012-06-26 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Folks, A question for the CI side-of-the-house ... What else is running on the Jenkins slaves, concurrently with the gating CI tests? The background is the intermittent glance service launch failure - the recently added strace-on-failure logic reveals the issue to be an EADDRINUSE when the reg

[Openstack] [nova][ec2] EC2 CreateImage API and nova boot-from-volume

2012-06-25 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Folks, I've been looking into the (currently broken) EC2 CreateImage API support and just wanted to get a sanity check on the following line of reasoning: - EC2 CreateImage should *only* apply to booted-from-volume nova servers, for fidelity with the EC2 limitation to EBS-based instances (

[Openstack] [Continuous-Integration] using strace from a test suite running on Ubuntu

2012-06-20 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Folks, I wanted to use strace(1) to get to the bottom of the glance service launch failures that have been plaguing Smokestack and Jenkins in the past few weeks: https://review.openstack.org/8722 However I just realized that Ubuntu from Maverick onward no longer allows ptrace to attach t

Re: [Openstack] [Glance] Replication implementations

2012-05-10 Thread Eoghan Glynn
data that must be replicated somehow across the system. I > > don't think we can really ensure no collisions mapping from uuid -> > > ec2_id deterministically, and I don't see a clear path forward when > > we do get a collision. > > > > Vish > > >

Re: [Openstack] [Glance] Replication implementations

2012-05-08 Thread Eoghan Glynn
a clear path forward when > we do get a collision. > > Vish > > On May 8, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Michael Still wrote: > > > On 04/05/12 20:31, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > > Sorry for the slow reply, I've been trapped in meetings. > > > > [snip] >

Re: [Openstack] [Glance] Replication implementations

2012-05-04 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > Current warts: > > ... > > - maintaining amazon ec2 ids across regions requires twiddling the > > nova database where this mapping is stored > > > Hi Mikal, > > We discussed that nova s3_images table earlier in the week on IRC. > Now at the time, I wasn't fully clear on the mechanics of

Re: [Openstack] [Glance] Replication implementations

2012-05-04 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Current warts: > ... > - maintaining amazon ec2 ids across regions requires twiddling the > nova database where this mapping is stored Hi Mikal, We discussed that nova s3_images table earlier in the week on IRC. Now at the time, I wasn't fully clear on the mechanics of the glance UUID ->

Re: [Openstack] [Swift][Keystone] Swift Quotas

2012-05-04 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Should you mix this into Keystone ? Seems kind of wrong to mix > identity manager with Quotas? This was discussed at several sessions the design summit, so I brought it up at the keystone 'state of the nation' session to get a feel for the keystone community's disposition to the idea. There

Re: [Openstack] Glance problem

2012-04-30 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Andrei, The underlying issue is starvation of the storage space used to store image content(as opposed to the image metadata, which takes up very little space). The reason the killed image isn't showing up in the output of glance index is that non-viable images are sanitized from the list. I

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-04-27 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/6847/ Nice! > * Migrations added during Folsom release cycle could be compacted > during "E" release cycle. TBD if/when we do the next compaction. An alternative idea would be to do the compaction *prior* to the Folsom relase instead of after, so that the c

Re: [Openstack] [OpenStack][Nova] Minimum required code coverage per file

2012-04-27 Thread Eoghan Glynn
- Original Message - > > Kevin, should we start copying openstack-common tests to client > > projects? Or just make sure to not count openstack-common code in > > the > > code coverage numbers for client projects? > > That's a tough one. If we copy in the tests, they end up being some

Re: [Openstack] Pending reviews

2012-04-26 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> There's something like 7 pages of open reviews on gerrit. The project > has a good kind of problem with so many people trying to contribute. > The question now is how to scale the development processes to handle > that growth. > > It was nice to see a number of discussions at the summit in th

Re: [Openstack] New Gerrit version (and server)

2012-04-13 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> We've just upgraded Gerrit to version 2.3. There are a lot of > changes > behind the scenes that we've been looking forward to (like being able > to > store data in innodb rather than myisam tables for extra data > longevity). And there are a few visible changes that may be of > interest > to

Re: [Openstack] Swift block-level deduplication

2012-04-12 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Thanks for the response Caitlin, > The versioning/dedup ring we are working on at Nexenta will support > both 1 and 3. I'll be presenting at the Summit on this. Great, I'll look forward to your presentation. > The ultimate goal of distributed dedup is scenario #1. Only the > client software ca

[Openstack] Swift block-level deduplication

2012-04-12 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Folks, >From previous posts on the ML, it seems there are a couple of efforts in train to add distributed content deduping to Swift. My question is whether either or both these approaches involve active client participation in enabling duplicate chunk detection? One could see a spectrum rangin

Re: [Openstack] control user quota

2012-04-12 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> I try to assign quota to individual users, to control how many > instances > each user can run concurrently. But I don't see a doc describing how > to > do that. I use diablo release. > Any help or doc pointer will be greatly appreciated. Quotas apply at the nova project/tenant granularity, a

Re: [Openstack] Image API v2 Draft 4

2012-04-10 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> APPENDIX B: Outstanding issues > ... > 2) How do we fit the existing 'copy_from' functionality in? Is the v2 API retaining some equivalent of the existing x-image-meta-location header, to allow an externally-stored image be registered with glance? e.g. via an image field specified on create

Re: [Openstack] Quota classes

2012-04-04 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > > Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > > > > - how is the mapping between project and quota-class established? > > > I was expecting a project_quota_class_association table or > > > some-such in the nova DB. Is this association maintained by &g

Re: [Openstack] Quota classes

2012-04-04 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > > - how is the mapping between project and quota-class established? > > I was expecting a project_quota_class_association table or > > some-such in the nova DB. Is this association maintained by > > keystone instead? >

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack Community Newsletter –March 30, 2012

2012-04-02 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> COMMUNITY STATISTICS > > > > • Activity on the main branch of OpenStack repositories, lines of > code added and removed per developer during week 7 of 2012 (from > Mon Mar 19 00:00:00 UTC 2012 to Mon March 26 00:00:00 UTC 2012) Hi Stefano, Assuming you're using git-log to gener

Re: [Openstack] Quota classes

2012-03-30 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > Presumably we'd also need some additional logic in the > > quota-classes API > > extension to allow tenant-to-quota-class mappings be established > > and torn down? > > Well, yeah :) Cool, captured in https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/969537 I'll propose a patch early next week. Cheers

Re: [Openstack] Quota classes

2012-03-30 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > A couple of quick questions on how this quota class mechanism is > > intended to work ... > > > > - how is the mapping between project and quota-class established? > > I was expecting a project_quota_class_association table or > &

Re: [Openstack] Quota classes

2012-03-30 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> I wanted to let everyone know about a quota classes blueprint I've > submitted; you can find the details here: > > * https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/quota-classes > * http://wiki.openstack.org/QuotaClass > > I've already implemented this blueprint and pushed to Gerrit, but > have

Re: [Openstack] Specify an owner when adding an image in Glance

2012-03-23 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Done. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/962998 Thanks, fixed here: https://review.openstack.org/5727 Cheers, Eoghan ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://lau

Re: [Openstack] Specify an owner when adding an image in Glance

2012-03-23 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Juerg, That's because 'owner' is not supported as an explicit parameter to 'glance add'. So as a result the CLI treats it a generic image property, and passes this to the API service via the header: x-image-meta-property-owner: 2 The 'x-image-meta-property-' prefix is used to distinguis

Re: [Openstack] nova-manage quota --headroom

2012-03-22 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Kevin Mitchell wrote: > I recently got the quota classes stuff merged into master (after the RC > branch for Essex was cut, of course). After I had completed that work, > I started thinking about quotas in general, and I think there's a better > way to organize how we do quotas in the first pla

Re: [Openstack] nova-manage quota --headroom

2012-03-22 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Thanks Jay for the feedback and background info, comments inline ... > > Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > So the question is whether there's already a means to acheive this > > in one fell swoop? > > Jay Pipes wrote: > Well, Horizon, in the launch instance modal dialog

[Openstack] nova-manage quota --headroom

2012-03-22 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Folks, One thing that's been on my wishlist since hitting a bunch of quota exceeded issues when first running Tempest and also on the Fedora17 openstack test day. It's ability to easily see the remaining headroom for each per-project quota, e.g. $ nova-manage quota --headroom --project=admin

Re: [Openstack] When & how are glance-cache* (.conf, -paste.ini) files loaded / parsed ?

2012-03-14 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Yes, it does make perfect sense. Kind thanks for the explanation. > > However, what is still unclear is what config iteems that pertain to > other apps must still be present (ie. duplicated in) glance-api.conf > (e.g. image_cache_driver , etc ) This is probably something we should document m

Re: [Openstack] When & how are glance-cache* (.conf, -paste.ini) files loaded / parsed ?

2012-03-14 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Florian, The key point in the split between glance-api.conf, glance-registry.conf, glance-cache.conf etc. is the glance application intended to consume that config. This follows directly from the naming: bin/glance-api by default consumes glance-api.conf bin/glance-registry by default consume

Re: [Openstack] can not start glance-api in glance E4

2012-03-07 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Does /etc/glance/policy.json exist? Is is readable? - Original Message - > From: ".。o 0 O泡泡" <501640...@qq.com> > To: "openstack" > Sent: Wednesday, 7 March, 2012 2:06:50 PM > Subject: [Openstack] can not start glance-api in glance E4 > > > hi all: > > In glance E4 ,when I enter fol

Re: [Openstack] running Tempest continuously in the openstack project?

2012-02-27 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> 1. Add catalog_name=compute to tempest.conf > 2. Change "name" to "type" in rest_client.py Yep, easiest to just apply this patch: git fetch https://review.openstack.org/p/openstack/tempest refs/changes/59/4259/1 && git format-patch -1 --stdout FETCH_HEAD Cheers, Eoghan ___

Re: [Openstack] running Tempest continuously in the openstack project?

2012-02-27 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Right now I'm having trouble setting up running the tests against > devstack (a configuration problem on my part I suppose, but I blame > it on the lack of documentation). Hi Ionut, I'm currently working on getting tempest running on Fedora 16. I'll follow up here with a recipe once I have

Re: [Openstack] DevStack and Fedora

2012-02-22 Thread Eoghan Glynn
This is great news Dean, thank you! I'll try using your patch to get tempest running on F16, and I'll get back to you with any issues I encounter. Cheers, Eoghan - Original Message - > From: "Dean Troyer" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Wednesday, 22 February, 2012 5:04:03

Re: [Openstack] DeltaCloud

2012-02-21 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> Deltacloud already has support for OpenStack: > > http://deltacloud.apache.org/drivers.html Yep, though the existing support is a thin extension over the original deltacloud Rackspace driver, so is limited to the 1.0 version of the openstack compute API. However work is under way on a new

Re: [Openstack] [Glance]: which part of the source codes handle the receiving of the upload image data

2012-02-17 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> I'm not good in WSGI. I have a foolish question to ask. > Which part of the source codes handle the receiving of the uploading > data. > > As far as I know, the uploading data is in body_file from webob. I > traced the webob > code but it made my head blowed. > > ---> send chunked data -> |

Re: [Openstack] FFE request - glance image upload copied from external store

2012-02-15 Thread Eoghan Glynn
So, what say ye? > I'd like to request an Essex feature freeze exception for this > blueprint: > > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/retrieve-image-from > > as implemented by the following patch: > > https://review.openstack.org/#change,4096 > > The blueprint was raised in r

[Openstack] FFE request - glance image upload copied from external store

2012-02-14 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Folks, I like to request an Essex feature freeze exception for this blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/retrieve-image-from as implemented by the following patch: https://review.openstack.org/#change,4096 The blueprint was raised in response to a late-breaking feature

Re: [Openstack] Adding a Glance image via API without POSTing the image data?

2012-02-13 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> > Yep, that's pretty much exactly the implementation we were hoping > > might exist. If it can be built that would be phenomenal. Any > > thoughts on whether that might be possible before E4 closes, or > > will > > it have to wait until Folsom? > > I'll propose a blueprint and see if I can get

Re: [Openstack] Adding a Glance image via API without POSTing the image data?

2012-02-08 Thread Eoghan Glynn
an get it approved for E4. My feeling is that it should be do-able in that timeframe. Cheers, Eoghan > > From: Eoghan Glynn [mailto:egl...@redhat.com] > > > > A-ha, I see what you mean. > > > > AFAIK that mode of upload separate to the image POST is no

Re: [Openstack] Heads-up: new glance dependency on pysendfile

2012-02-08 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> BTW, does anybody knows who is taking care of it for Debian? Apparently Janoš Guljaš was looking at packaging it for Debian. But apparently the original mainntainer of the python-sendfile package is uncontactable so a "team upload" (Debian Python Modules Team) would be needed Cheers, Eoghan

[Openstack] Heads-up: new glance dependency on pysendfile

2012-02-08 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Folks, Just a quick heads-up that this review[1] if accepted will result in glance taking a soft dependency on pysendfile. The import is conditional, so where pysendfile is unavailable on a particular distro, the 'glance add' command will simply fallback to the pre-existing chunk-at-a-time logic

Re: [Openstack] Adding a Glance image via API without POSTing the image data?

2012-02-08 Thread Eoghan Glynn
ation that's accessible to the glance API service. Would that address your use-case, Gabriel? Cheers, Eoghan > On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Eoghan Glynn wrote: > > > > > > >> The Horizon team is looking at adding a first-pass implementation > >> of >

Re: [Openstack] Adding a Glance image via API without POSTing the image data?

2012-02-07 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> The Horizon team is looking at adding a first-pass implementation of > image upload before the Essex release, and we'd really like to > bypass the problems associated with, say, passing a 700MB Ubuntu > image through the user's browser to a web server and then across to > Glance... > > So the

Re: [Openstack] [GLANCE] Easy blueprint for a new contributor to pick up

2012-02-07 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hey Jay, I'll take this one (assuming no-one else was thinking of grabbing it?). Cheers, Eoghan - Original Message - > From: "Jay Pipes" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Tuesday, 7 February, 2012 2:37:17 AM > Subject: [Openstack] [GLANCE] Easy blueprint for a new contribut

[Openstack] glance performance gains via sendfile()

2012-02-06 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Reynolds, I've been looking into your interesting idea around sendfile()[1] usage, here are a few initial thoughts: - There's potentially even more speed-up to be harnessed in serving out images from the filesystem store via sendfile(), than from using it client-side on the initial uploa

Re: [Openstack] WADL for compute API v1.1

2012-01-25 Thread Eoghan Glynn
f github: https://review.openstack.org/3421 but if you publish the WADL at a well-known path under docs.openstack.org, that would be much better. Cheers, Eoghan - Original Message - > From: "Anne Gentle" > To: "Eoghan Glynn" > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.ne

Re: [Openstack] WADL for compute API v1.1

2012-01-25 Thread Eoghan Glynn
> So I was wondering whether there was an intention to publish a v1.1 WADL ... Follow up question: would it be nasty to serve out that WADL directly from github? e.g https://github.com/openstack/compute-api/blob//openstack-compute-api-1.1/src/os-compute-1.1.wadl

[Openstack] WADL for compute API v1.1

2012-01-25 Thread Eoghan Glynn
Hi Folks, The describedby links in nova/api/openstack/compute/versions.py contain broken hrefs to a v1.1 WADL document[1] and PDF[1]. Looks like a copy'n'paste from the corresponding 1.0 versions of the WADL[3] and PDF[4], both of which are present and correct. So I was wondering whether there