On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:19:36AM -0800, Gregory Farnum wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Kevin Decherf <ke...@kdecherf.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:25:59PM -0800, Gregory Farnum wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Kevin Decherf <ke...@kdecherf.com> wrote: > >> > Furthermore, I observe another strange thing more or less related to the > >> > storms. > >> > > >> > During a rsync command to write ~20G of data on Ceph and during (and > >> > after) the storm, one OSD sends a lot of data to the active MDS > >> > (400Mbps peak each 6 seconds). After a quick check, I found that when I > >> > stop osd.23, osd.14 stops its peaks. > >> > >> This is consistent with Sam's suggestion that MDS is thrashing its > >> cache, and is grabbing a directory object off of the OSDs. How large > >> are the directories you're using? If they're a significant fraction of > >> your cache size, it might be worth enabling the (sadly less stable) > >> directory fragmentation options, which will split them up into smaller > >> fragments that can be independently read and written to disk. > > > > I set mds cache size to 400000 but now I observe ~900Mbps peaks from > > osd.14 to the active mds, osd.18 and osd.2. > > > > osd.14 shares some pg with osd.18 and osd.2: > > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=uBAcTcu4 > > The high bandwidth from OSD to MDS really isn't a concern — that's the > MDS asking for data and getting it back quickly! We're concerned about > client responsiveness; has that gotten better?
It seems better now, I didn't see any storm so far. But we observe high latency on some of our clients (with no load). Does it exist any documentation on how to read the perfcounters_dump output? I would like to know if the MDS still has any problem with its cache or if the latency comes from elsewhere. -- Kevin Decherf - @Kdecherf GPG C610 FE73 E706 F968 612B E4B2 108A BD75 A81E 6E2F http://kdecherf.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
