Excerpts from Daniele Venzano's message of 2014-09-25 02:40:11 -0700: > On 09/25/14 10:12, Qiming Teng wrote: > > Yes, just about 3 VMs running on two hosts, for at most 3 weeks. This > > is leading me to another question -- any best practices/tools to > > retire the old data on a regular basis? Regards, Qiming > > There is a tool: ceilometer-expirer > > I tried to use it on a mysql database, since I had the same table size > problem as you and it made the machine hit swap. I think it tries to > load the whole table in memory. > Just to see if it would eventually finish, I let it run for 1 week > before throwing away the whole database and move on. > > Now I use Ceilometer's pipeline to forward events to elasticsearch via > udp + logstash and do not use Ceilometer's DB or API at all. >
Interesting, this almost sounds like what should be the default configuration honestly. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
