I'm afraid I missed this topic the first time around, and I think it bears
revisiting.
tl;dr: I think we should consider ensuring gate stability in the face of
resource-starved services by some combination of more intelligent test design
and better handling of resource starvation (for example,
Robert,
As you've deliberately picked on me I feel compelled to reply!
Jokes apart, I am going to retire that patch and push the new default in
neutron. Regardless of considerations on real loads vs gate loads, I think
it is correct to assume the default configuration should be one that will
A few times now we've run into patches for devstack-gate / devstack
that change default configuration to handle 'tempest load'.
For instance - https://review.openstack.org/61137 (Sorry Salvatore I'm
not picking on you really!)
So there appears to be a meme that the gate is particularly stressful
