On 14 November 2012 22:16, Adrian Cole <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, Steve.
>
> This low throttling policy is not an OpenStack limitation, this is a
> Rackspace limitation.  For example, OpenStack does define the error
> codes, but there's nothing in the code that says request count for a
> public cloud service needs to be so low, that it will lock out any
> high frequency poll attempts.
>
> There's a couple things to do, conceding this.
>
> 1. contact rackspace and raise your limit
> 2. set the poll interval high like in everett's example, which I think
> was 30 seconds.  You won't know for a while if the server started or
> died, but at least you won't lockout your account.
> 3. there's an effort to reduce the amount of calls in jclouds by
> batching requests together and then using a single network call for
> many machines.  This still won't solve rackspace as it would likely
> also exceed the limit, but it would foster the same number of calls
> for a single node cluster as a 20 one.  You can join jcloud-dev google
> group if you want in on this.
>
>
I may soon do that.


> Above all, please complain to rackspace.  Quotas that are set this low
> without a viable alternative place undue burden on the ecosystem.  I'd
> understand it, if they had a streaming api, but they don't and the
> only way to tell if your servers are running are to poll them (or
> switch to IP related pings I guess).
>
> HTH,
> -A
>

Is it the polling that's doing it, not the instantiation requests? That's
easier to deal with.

I've been playing with another Nova service, but it had different "issues".

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