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Message #21625
Re: [OpenStack] How to speed up the instance launch time?
Yes it makes sense to have /var/lib/glance/images and
/var/lib/nova/instances/_base on the same network file system. But Quantum
network node being a bottle neck today, would the benefits be nullified by
a choked network?
Regards,
Balu
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Mark Lehrer <mark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> The change I made that helped the most was to disable NBD. You have
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>> Was that to disable injection at startup?
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> No, NBD is just slow and unreliable for some reason. Disabling it made
> my users happy. I haven't had time to find out why NBD is so horrible.
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> Eventually I would like to see /var/lib/glance/images and
> /var/lib/nova/instances/_base be on the same BTRFS file system and use
> reflink copies.
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> Mark
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