Instances in error state take up quota. This is for consistency since we generally count error state instances against the quota and having some count and others not count would be even more confusing.
** Changed in: nova Status: Confirmed => Opinion -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Yahoo! Engineering Team, which is subscribed to OpenStack Compute (nova). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1308613 Title: Quota usage should be updated if there's no valid host to run an instance Status in OpenStack Compute (Nova): Opinion Bug description: When nova scheduler does not find a valid host to run an instance, the instance quota usage should be decremented. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1308613/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team Post to : yahoo-eng-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~yahoo-eng-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp