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Re: Nonce already used

To: Ryan Harper <ryan.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Britton <david.britton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Maas Devel <maas-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:46:49 +1000
Cc: Gregory Lutostanski <gregory.lutostanski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <CAJAXbpf6kmjxpn84z2VQt-i7aeRNMCQS89kFGUkSmEtoGONqZQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/07/14 08:21, Ryan Harper wrote:
> There is an existing bug[1] and some nonce-cleanup changes coming (maas
> will run nonce cleanup once a day IIRC).  In our heavily utilized MAAS
> in OIL, it's not enough.
> 
> The 8 character nonce produces way too many collisions, we generated 65k
> unique nonces in 30 minutes.
> 
> Greg (on CC) had a branch that replaced the none generator with
> uuid.uuid4() which runs just as fast, but creates longer unique strings.
> 
> 
> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1190986

Can you point me at the branch please?  It's worth getting into the
1.6.0 release, especially if it helps the OIL.

Follow ups

Re: Nonce already used
From: Ryan Harper, 2014-07-11

References

Nonce already used
From: David Britton, 2014-07-10
Re: Nonce already used
From: Ryan Harper, 2014-07-10