[Rdo-list] python-kombu 1.1.3 is not recommended version of Icehouse

[Pádraig Brady]

On 05/23/2014 04:52 AM, Koji IIDA wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for good suggestions.
> 
>> The particular reason kombu requirement was updated upstream
>> was to cater for newer msgpack modules. However the EPEL version
>> of python-msgpack should not have this issue with python-kombu.
>> Details in https://pad.lv/1134575
>>
>> So does this cause another issue for you?
> 
> There is benchmark tool for oslo.messaging introduced at last Atlanta
> summit.
> 
> Etherpad:
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/juno-oslo.messaging-amqp-1.0
> 
> Code:
> https://github.com/grs/ombt
> 
> 
> When I tried this benchmarking tool on my RDO box (kombu 1.1.3-2), I got
> a poor throughtput (7.7 request/sec). But just updating kombu to 2.5.8,
> I got a better throughput (91 reuest/sec).
> 
> I don't know why kombu 1.1.3-2 results such a poor performance.

There didn't seem to be anything significant related to performance in the ChangeLogs at least
What version of python-amqp are you using with that (kombu >= 2.5 uses the python-amqp fork)

This is a significant change, so we'll look at updating EPEL or RDO with that for el6.

thanks!
Pádraig.