We're using a dedicated MongoDB instance for ceilometer and a distinct DB for 
each of the Nova cells.

Tim

From: Nadya Privalova [mailto:nprival...@mirantis.com]
Sent: 20 March 2014 13:27
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer][QA][Tempest][Infra] Ceilometer 
tempest testing in gate

Tim, yep. If you use one db for Ceilometer and Nova then nova's performance may 
be affected. I've seen this issue.
Will start profiling ASAP.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Tim Bell 
<tim.b...@cern.ch<mailto:tim.b...@cern.ch>> wrote:

+1 for performance analysis to understand what needs to be optimised. Metering 
should be light-weight.

For those of us running in production, we don't have an option to turn 
ceilometer off some of the time. That we are not able to run through the gate 
tests hints that there are optimisations that are needed.

For example, turning on ceilometer caused a 16x increase in our Nova API call 
rate, see 
http://openstack-in-production.blogspot.ch/2014/03/cern-cloud-architecture-update-for.html
 for details.

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Dague [mailto:s...@dague.net<mailto:s...@dague.net>]
> Sent: 20 March 2014 11:16
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Ceilometer][QA][Tempest][Infra] Ceilometer 
> tempest testing in gate
>
...
>
> While I agree that Tempest's job is not to test performance, we do have to 
> give some basic sanity checking here that the software is running in some
> performance profile that we believe is base usable.
>
> Based on the latest dstat results, I think that's a dubious assessment.
> The answer on the collector side has to be something other than horizontal 
> scaling. Because we're talking about the collector being the 3rd highest
> utilized process on the box right now (we should write a dstat plugin to give 
> us cumulative data, just haven't gotten there yet).
>
> So right now, I think performance analysis for ceilometer on sqla is 
> important, really important. Not just horizontal scaling, but actual
> performance profiling.
>
>       -Sean
>
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> Samsung Research America
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