Re: [Openstack] [openstack-dev] CLI command to figure out security-group's association to particular tenant/user

2013-06-28 Thread Rick Jones
;) --variable VARIABLE specify the variable(s) to include, can be repeated --prefix PREFIX add a prefix to all variable names rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscrib

Re: [Openstack] Swift performance issues with requests

2013-06-04 Thread Rick Jones
n the cumulative time for successive retransmissions of TCP SYNs was completely wrong - 3 + 6 + 12 isn't 17, but 21... :) rick Thanks Klaus -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Rick Jones [mailto:rick.jon...@hp.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 31. Mai 2013 19:17 An: Klaus Schürmann Cc:

Re: [Openstack] Swift performance issues with requests

2013-05-31 Thread Rick Jones
On 05/31/2013 04:55 AM, Klaus Schürmann wrote: May 31 10:33:08 swift-proxy1 proxy-logging 10.4.2.99 10.4.2.99 31/May/2013/08/33/08 GET /v1/AUTH_provider1/129450/829188397.31 HTTP/1.0 200 - Wget/1.12%20%28linux-gnu%29 provider1%2CAUTH_tke6408efec4b2439091fb6f4e75911602 - 283354 - txd4a3a4bf3f38

Re: [Openstack] Swift performance issues with requests

2013-05-31 Thread Rick Jones
: ... Can someone explain such behavior? I'm sure others will suggest storage things to check. Being a networking type, I will suggest looking into TCP retransmissions. Netstat -s commands can be helpful there. On your client, the proxy and perhaps even your object server(s). rick

Re: [Openstack] New code name for networks

2013-05-11 Thread Rick Jones
rking at a distance" - perhaps something else in the realm of quantum physics? rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More

Re: [Openstack] launching multiple VMs takes very long time

2013-05-01 Thread Rick Jones
iperf. It seems unlikely that the network could retain a "memory" of a previous transfer to cause a subsequent, non-overlapping transfer to run more slowly. The logs on the compute node(s) will show how long it took to actually retrieve the image yes?

Re: [Openstack] launching multiple VMs takes very long time

2013-04-30 Thread Rick Jones
utilized CPU during a test, in addition to reporting the overall CPU utilization. rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Openstack] launching multiple VMs takes very long time

2013-04-30 Thread Rick Jones
ith the glance/controller node. Take some snapshots over an interval in each case and run them through something like beforeafter: netstat -s > before ...wait a defined/consistent moment... netstat -s > after beforeafter before after > delta and go from there. rick jo

Re: [Openstack] question on the GRE Performance

2013-03-15 Thread Rick Jones
and go from there. I'm guessing your tests are all bulk-transfer - you might want to consider adding some latency and/or aggregate small-packet performance tests. happy benchmarking, rick jones the applicability varies, but attached is some boilerplate I've built-up over time, on th

Re: [Openstack] [QUANTUM] (Bug ?) L3 routing not correctly fragmenting packets ?

2013-03-11 Thread Rick Jones
agram Too Big messages through. It is perhaps my failing, but I fail to see how blocking them improves "security." rick jones adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit - Ovid quoted in The Mythical Man Month ___ Mailing list: https://launchpa

Re: [Openstack] [QUANTUM] (Bug ?) L3 routing not correctly fragmenting packets ?

2013-03-08 Thread Rick Jones
On 03/08/2013 11:49 AM, Aaron Rosen wrote: Hi Rick, You are right. I just ran curl to test for myself and it does set the DF bit. Why is this? Any ideas why it specifies that the packet cannot be fragmented? Because most, if not virtually all TCP stacks going back to the mid 1990s (RFC 1191 i

Re: [Openstack] [QUANTUM] (Bug ?) L3 routing not correctly fragmenting packets ?

2013-03-08 Thread Rick Jones
eing ignored? Only changing the VM MTU to 1454 does the trick ('ifconfig eth0 mtu 1454'). For info, 192.168.10.3 is the floating IP bound to 10.0.0.4 (private IP). I suppose if 10.0.0.4 doesn't explicitly know about 192.168.10.3 it might indeed ignore the ICMP message. As

Re: [Openstack] Horizon and open connections

2013-01-31 Thread Rick Jones
lost, that's it, and the CLOSE_WAIT may remain forever. Again though, given the rarity of actual application use of a simplex TCP connection, 99 times out of 10, seeing lots of CLOSE_WAIT connections building-up implies a buggy application or the libraries doing work on its behalf. r

Re: [Openstack] How to create vm instance to specific compute node?

2012-12-30 Thread Rick Jones
-only ability by default and can oversubscribe the compute node the instance goes on. Will it use the same /var/lib/nova/sch_hosts/ mechanism to allow mere mortals to use it like the onhost stuff did? thanks, rick Best, -jay On 12/27/2012 02:45 PM, Rick Jones wrote: Does the convention of a

Re: [Openstack] How to create vm instance to specific compute node?

2012-12-27 Thread Rick Jones
Does the convention of adding --onhost--computenodename to the instance name being created still work? rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net

Re: [Openstack] Strange network behavior

2012-11-09 Thread Rick Jones
ld have expected - 2650163744. FWIW, that there was a SYN-ACK sent in response to the SYN in the first place suggests that 10.0.41.3 received what it thought was a properly checksummed SYN segment. All the more reason I suspect to take traces at both ends and compare the packets byte by byte.

Re: [Openstack] Troubleshooting Swift 1.7.4 on mini servers

2012-10-30 Thread Rick Jones
catch the error with strace, if it works on ARM. Strace is your friend even if he is sometimes a bit on the chatty side. It looks as though there is at least some support for ARM if http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=strace is any indication. rick jones

Re: [Openstack] [SWIFT] Proxies Sizing for 90.000 / 200.000 RPM

2012-10-26 Thread Rick Jones
tness alogrithms/heuristics. And disabling it suggests an opportunity to tune an application for better performance. rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe :

Re: [Openstack] [SWIFT] Proxies Sizing for 90.000 / 200.000 RPM

2012-10-24 Thread Rick Jones
nto/out-of the F5 (cluster of F5's?) and how utilized is that pipe already? If it is running at anything more than 2.5% (5000/20) to 5.5% (5000/9) in the direction the GETS will flow it will become a bottleneck. (handwaving it as 100% GETS rather than 90%) rick jones Today, w

Re: [Openstack] Bad performance on physical hosts kvm + bonding + bridging

2012-07-13 Thread Rick Jones
with a value of zero can, sometimes, confuse beforeafter if a stat appears in after that was not present in before.) It might not be a bad idea to include ethtool -S statistics from each of the interfaces in that procedure as well. rick jones probably a good idea to mention the bonding mode

Re: [Openstack] [Swift][Object-server] Why that arp_cache consumes memory followed with uploading objects?

2012-07-12 Thread Rick Jones
questions. Btw , how could I flush the memory of arp_cache which using by XFS(SWIFT)? You can use the classic "arp" command to manipulate the ARP cache. It can also show you how many entries there are. I suspect that a web search on "linux flush arp cache" may yield some h

Re: [Openstack] Performance metrics

2012-06-29 Thread Rick Jones
On 06/21/2012 02:21 PM, Rick Jones wrote: TSO and GRO can cover a multitude of path-length sins :) That is one of the reasons netperf does more than just bulk transfer :) When I was/am measuring "scaling" of an SMP node I would use aggregate, burst-mode, single-byte netperf TCP_R

Re: [Openstack] Performance metrics

2012-06-21 Thread Rick Jones
R test but each transaction is a freshly created and torn-down TCP connection. happy benchmarking, rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/

Re: [Openstack] Performance metrics

2012-06-21 Thread Rick Jones
On 06/20/2012 08:09 PM, Huang Zhiteng wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Rick Jones wrote: I do not have numbers I can share, but do have an interest in discussing methodology for evaluating "scaling" particularly as regards to "networking." My initial thoughts are

Re: [Openstack] Performance metrics

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Jones
rigors of netperf workloads it will probably scale well under "real" workloads. Such scaling under netperf may not be necessary, but it should be sufficient. happy benchmarking, rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack

Re: [Openstack] Swift performance for very small objects

2012-05-21 Thread Rick Jones
arrived off the wire, and when the response was sent (queued to the driver at least). Caveat - you should not try to do math between absolute timestamps on the client and on the server unless you know that the two systems have really, Really, REALLY well synchronized clocks... rick jones htt

Re: [Openstack] Openstack Beginners guide for Ubuntu 12.04/Essex

2012-05-10 Thread Rick Jones
bers of an instance-local range of ports being opened. Some verbiage about that might be goodness. Also the example description for adding port 22 is incomplete - it isn't allowing tcp traffic traffic generally. It is allowing ssh/scp traffic specifically hope that helps, rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Openstack] Caching strategies in Nova ...

2012-03-23 Thread Rick Jones
wouldn't be minutes, but it could add up a bit I suppose. rick jones ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Openstack] glance performance gains via sendfile()

2012-02-06 Thread Rick Jones
anual for the current top-of-trunk version of netperf is at: http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/trunk/doc/netperf.html and the top-of-trunk bits can be pulled via subversion pointing at http://www.netperf.org/svn/netperf2/trunk happy benchmarking, rick jones For example, between a pair of Ub