lxc-ls --fancy taking a long time

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Quoting Andreas Hasenack (andreas at canonical.com):
> > Hi,
> >
> > for an experiment I'm trying to deploy 100 containers on a machine. I
> used
> > the "ubuntu" charm and basically did a for loop with juju add-unit ubuntu
> > --to lxc:1
> >
> > I had to adjust some ulimit limits, but so far, so good.
> >
> > It's taking more time than I expected to deploy this, but what really
> > caught my attention is how long lxc-ls --fancy takes to complete:
> >
> > # time lxc-ls --fancy | grep juju-machine-1|wc -l
> > 91
> >
> > real    1m36.950s
>
> the --fancy does add a lot of work, but this seems slower than it ought
> to be.  Are the containers running while you are doing this?  Is it
> faster if they happen to all be stopped or all started?
>


They were running, but doing nothing. It was just a deployment of the
"ubuntu" charm. Didn't try with them all stopped, and right now I don't
have that system up anymore.
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