juju is slow to do anything

[Peter Waller]

Hi Marco,

My local machine is running 1.13.2-precise-amd64 and the bootstrap node
1.13.2-raring-amd64. I've only ever used versions greater than 1.11 and
seen this kind of latency (half a minute or more).

Thanks,

- Peter


On 30 August 2013 00:22, Marco Ceppi <marco.ceppi at canonical.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter (and ScraperWiki team!),
>
> Thanks for contact the list! I'm curious what version of juju do you all
> currently use at ScraperWiki? In version of juju < 1.0 we were creating SSH
> tunnels to the bootstrap node to create a socket for which to securely
> communicate with Zookeeper, which was what we used as our state server.
> Since 1.0 we've replaced Zookeeper with SSL secured Mongodb (and an API
> server), which means connections to the bootstrap node for querying unit
> information and performing actions has increased in speed quite a bit. So
> if you're using, say, juju 0.7 you'll still be creating this tedious SSH
> tunnels which create overhead in each juju command. If you're using, say,
> juju 1.12 then you shouldn't see much latency at all.
>
> As for garbage collection, I think this is still an issue with both our
> last 0.X release (0.7) and our latest 1.X release (1.13.2). I know that the
> 1.0 series of juju release are getting better at allowing you to clean up
> services that no longer exist in the topology but it's not quite there yet.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marco Ceppi
> Canonical, Ltd.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:57 AM, Peter Waller <peter at scraperwiki.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've just joined ScraperWiki where juju is used to manage our AWS
>> deployments.
>>
>> I don't have any prior juju experience. Is it expected that "juju status"
>> and "juju ssh" take more than 30 seconds to do anything? Everyone in my
>> organization is experiencing this. It is making it a frustrating tool to
>> use at times.
>>
>> If this isn't normal, are there any obvious culprits I can check to
>> diagnose the origin of this delay?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> - Peter
>>
>> p.s. To give some information about our setup:
>>
>> $ juju status | grep agent-state:  | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>>       1         agent-state: pending
>>       1     agent-state: pending
>>       7     agent-state: down
>>       9     agent-state: started
>>      10         agent-state: started
>>
>> We have quite some machines we're never going to use again, is there a
>> way to garbage collect this list?
>>
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