On May 3, 2012, at 4:46 AM, Yuriy Taraday wrote:
Just note that since Essex release Nova by default use fill-first cost
function, meaning that nodes with less free RAM will be preferred for
new instances.
Kind regards, Yuriy.
I thought the default behavior in essex was spread-first:
From:
https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/essex/nova/scheduler/least_cost.py#L41
cfg.FloatOpt('compute_fill_first_cost_fn_weight',
default=-1.0,
help='How much weight to give the fill-first cost function. '
'A negative value will reverse behavior: '
'e.g. spread-first'),
]