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[Dan Prince <dprince@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

See below...

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Kranz" <david.kranz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: openstack-qa-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:58:47 AM
> Subject: [Openstack-qa-team] Tempest performance
> 
> I have noticed that running tempest takes longer than I would like
> and
> seems to spend most of its time waiting for vms to boot. Is there an
> image we could use that is known to be the fastest to boot? Should we
> (some one who knows how, that is) create one just for this purpose?


Have you tried the images here:

http://wiki.openstack.org/GettingImages

Most of those images are pretty small. If you are using libvirt once the base images get cached locally they will boot very quickly. You could also try LXC.

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As for test suites if speed is important then you might also consider using Torpedo. It was specifically designed with a high API coverage to runtime ratio in mind. It has quite a payload too: https://github.com/dprince/torpedo

Hope this helps.

Dan