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[Eoghan Glynn <eglynn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Yawei Wu,

The root of the confusion is the fact the cpu meter is reporting
the cumlative cpu_time stat from libvirt. This libvirt counter is
reset when the associated qemu process is restarted (an artifact
of how cpuacct works).

So when you stop/start or suspend/resume, a fresh qemu process
is sparked up, then the cumulative time is reset.

Thanks for bringing this up, as it has implications as to how
we meter CPU time and utilization[1].

We may need to start metering the delta between CPU times on 
subsequent polling cycles, instead of using a cumulative meter
(dealing with the edge case where the instance has been restarted
within a polling period).

Cheers,
Eoghan

[1] https://review.openstack.org/14921


> I am still testing ceilometer now. I am confused about the meter
> volume
> in the mongodb. Let's talk about cpu usage.
> 
> After I create and boot a vm named vm_1, meter data record about cpu
> usage will be inserted into db in cycle(default 10 minutes). For
> example,the 'counter_volume' of the first record is '52060000000',and
> the second one is '123890000000'.
> 
> 1) '123890000000' nanoseconds means '123.89' seconds or two
> minutes,it
> seem like to be 1238.9 seconds actually, is there something wrong ?
> 
> 2) If I never reboot or suspend vm_1, will the 'counter_volume' of
> cpu
> usage record increase all the time ? Just like '8 minutes' -> '18
> minutes' -> '28 minutes' ?
> 
> 3) If I reboot or suspend vm_1, I find that the 'counter_volume' of
> cpu
> usage record will count from zero. Just like '8 minutes' -> '18
> minutes'
> -> '28 minutes' [-> '0 minutes'] ->'5 minutes' -> '15 minutes'. Does
> it
> mean that 'counter_volume' just represents how long has vm_1 been
> booted
> up ?
> 
> 4) This one is about Web API. I find that "GET
> /v1/resources/(resource)/meters/(meter)/volume/sum" just return the
> sum
> value of all the cpu 'counter_volume', like '8 minutes' + '18
> minutes'.
> Is it reduplicate ?
> 
> 5) If I want to know how long has vm_1's cpu been used yesterday, how
> can I do ?
> 
> It seems like that I have too many questions..
> 
> Thank you very much !
> 
> 
> -----------------------
> Yawei Wu
> Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology,Corp.
> 
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