> containers scheduled < 5s on average That seems awfully slow for a fancy chroo...

cjcullen · on July 21, 2015

5s is the right number, but it leaves out that it is 99%ile, on a 100-node, 3000-pod cluster. See https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/issues/395....

zwischenzug · on July 22, 2015

It's the cadence of the etcd read cycle chosen for kubernetes. They could do it much faster, but I guess there are engineering tradeoffs based on the size of the cluster and the speed of the network.