Hi all,
We switched to a, now free, Sandy Bridge based server.
This has resolved our read issues. So something about the Quad AMD box
was very bad for reads...
I've got numbers if people are interested.. but I would say that AMD is
not a great idea for OSD's.
Thanks for all the pointers!
Regards
Malcolm Haak
On 19/04/13 12:21, Malcolm Haak wrote:
Ok this is getting interesting.
rados -p <pool> bench 300 write --no-cleanup
Total time run: 301.103933
Total writes made: 22477
Write size: 4194304
Bandwidth (MB/sec): 298.595
Stddev Bandwidth: 171.941
Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 832
Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 8
Average Latency: 0.214295
Stddev Latency: 0.405511
Max latency: 3.26323
Min latency: 0.019429
rados -p <pool> bench 300 seq
Total time run: 76.634659
Total reads made: 22477
Read size: 4194304
Bandwidth (MB/sec): 1173.203
Average Latency: 0.054539
Max latency: 0.937036
Min latency: 0.018132
So the writes on the rados bench are slower than we have achieved with
dd and were slower on the back-end file store as well. But the reads are
great. We could see 1~1.5GB/s on the back-end as well.
So we started doing some other tests to see if it was in RBD or the VFS
layer in the kernel.. And things got weird.
So using CephFS:
root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/test-fs/DELETEME1 bs=1G count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 7.28658 s, 1.5 GB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/test-fs/DELETEME1 bs=1G count=20
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 20.6105 s, 1.0 GB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/test-fs/DELETEME1 bs=1G count=40
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
42949672960 bytes (43 GB) copied, 53.4013 s, 804 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-fs/DELETEME1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=4
iflag=direct
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 23.1572 s, 185 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]#
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-fs/DELETEME1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=4
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 1.20258 s, 3.6 GB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-fs/DELETEME1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=20
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 5.40589 s, 4.0 GB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-fs/DELETEME1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=40
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
42949672960 bytes (43 GB) copied, 10.4781 s, 4.1 GB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-fs/DELETEME1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=40
^C24+0 records in
23+0 records out
24696061952 bytes (25 GB) copied, 56.8824 s, 434 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-fs/DELETEME1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=40
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
42949672960 bytes (43 GB) copied, 113.542 s, 378 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]#
So about the same, when we were not hitting cache. So we decided to just
hit the RBD block device with no FS on it.. Welcome to weirdsville
root@ty3:~# umount /test-rbd-fs
root@ty3:~#
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=4
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 18.6603 s, 230 MB/s
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=4 iflag=direct
4+0 records in
4+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 1.13584 s, 3.8 GB/s
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=20 iflag=direct
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 4.61028 s, 4.7 GB/s
root@ty3:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=20 iflag=direct
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 4.43416 s, 4.8 GB/s
root@ty3:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@ty3:~#
root@ty3:~#
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=20 iflag=direct
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 5.07426 s, 4.2 GB/s
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=40 iflag=direct
40+0 records in
40+0 records out
42949672960 bytes (43 GB) copied, 8.60885 s, 5.0 GB/s
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=80 iflag=direct
80+0 records in
80+0 records out
85899345920 bytes (86 GB) copied, 18.4305 s, 4.7 GB/s
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/rbd1 of=/dev/null bs=1G count=20
20+0 records in
20+0 records out
21474836480 bytes (21 GB) copied, 91.5546 s, 235 MB/s
root@ty3:~#
So.. we just started reading from the block device. And the numbers were
well.. Faster than the QDR IB can do TCP/IP. So we figured local
caching. So we dropped caches and ramped up to bigger than ram. (ram is
24GB) and it got faster. So we went to 3x ram.. and it was a bit slower..
Oh also the whole time we were doing these tests, the back-end disk was
seeing no I/O at all.. We were dropping caches on the OSD's as well, but
even if it was caching at the OSD end, the IB link is only QDR and we
aren't doing RDMA so. Yeah..No idea what is going on here...
On 19/04/13 10:40, Mark Nelson wrote:
On 04/18/2013 07:27 PM, Malcolm Haak wrote:
Morning all,
Did the echos on all boxes involved... and the results are in..
[root@dogbreath ~]#
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME of=/dev/null bs=4M
count=10000 iflag=direct
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
41943040000 bytes (42 GB) copied, 144.083 s, 291 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME of=/dev/null bs=4M
count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
41943040000 bytes (42 GB) copied, 316.025 s, 133 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]#
Boo!
No change which is a shame. What other information or testing should I
start?
Any chance you can try out a quick rados bench test from the client
against the pool for writes and reads and see how that works?
rados -p <pool> bench 300 write --no-cleanup
rados -p <pool> bench 300 seq
Regards
Malcolm Haak
On 18/04/13 17:22, Malcolm Haak wrote:
Hi Mark!
Thanks for the quick reply!
I'll reply inline below.
On 18/04/13 17:04, Mark Nelson wrote:
On 04/17/2013 11:35 PM, Malcolm Haak wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Malcolm!
I jumped into the IRC channel yesterday and they said to email
ceph-devel. I have been having some read performance issues. With
Reads
being slower than writes by a factor of ~5-8.
I recently saw this kind of behaviour (writes were fine, but reads
were
terrible) on an IPoIB based cluster and it was caused by the same TCP
auto tune issues that Jim Schutt saw last year. It's worth a try at
least to see if it helps.
echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_moderate_rcvbuf
on all of the clients and server nodes should be enough to test it
out.
Sage added an option in more recent Ceph builds that lets you work
around it too.
Awesome I will test this first up tomorrow.
First info:
Server
SLES 11 SP2
Ceph 0.56.4.
12 OSD's that are Hardware Raid 5 each of the twelve is made from 5
NL-SAS disks for a total of 60 disks (Each lun can do around 320MB/s
stream write and the same if not better read) Connected via 2xQDR IB
OSD's/MDS and such all on same box (for testing)
Box is a Quad AMD Opteron 6234
Ram is 256Gb
10GB Journals
osd_op_theads: 8
osd_disk_threads:2
Filestore_op_threads:4
OSD's are all XFS
Interesting setup! QUAD socket Opteron boxes have somewhat slow and
slightly oversubscribed hypertransport links don't they? I wonder
if on
a system with so many disks and QDR-IB if that could become a
problem...
We typically like smaller nodes where we can reasonably do 1 OSD per
drive, but we've tested on a couple of 60 drive chassis in RAID
configs
too. Should be interesting to hear what kind of aggregate performance
you can eventually get.
We are also going to try this out with 6 luns on a dual xeon box. The
Opteron box was the biggest scariest thing we had that was doing
nothing.
All nodes are connected via QDR IB using IP_O_IB. We get 1.7GB/s on
TCP
performance tests between the nodes.
Clients: One is FC17 the other us Ubuntu 12.10 they only have around
32GB-70GB ram.
We ran into an odd issue were the OSD's would all start in the same
NUMA
node and pretty much on the same processor core. We fixed that up
with
some cpuset magic.
Strange! Was that more due to cpuset or Ceph? I can't imagine
that we
are doing anything that would cause that.
More than likely it is an odd quirk in the SLES kernel.. but when I
have
time I'll do some more poking. We were seeing insane CPU usage on some
cores because all the OSD's were piled up in one place.
Performance testing we have done: (Note oflag=direct was yielding
results within 5% of cached results)
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME bs=10M
count=3200
3200+0 records in
3200+0 records out
33554432000 bytes (34 GB) copied, 47.6685 s, 704 MB/s
root@ty3:~#
root@ty3:~# rm /test-rbd-fs/DELETEME
root@ty3:~#
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME bs=10M
count=4800
4800+0 records in
4800+0 records out
50331648000 bytes (50 GB) copied, 69.5527 s, 724 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd of=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME if=/dev/zero bs=10M
count=2400
2400+0 records in
2400+0 records out
25165824000 bytes (25 GB) copied, 26.3593 s, 955 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]# rm -f /test-rbd-fs/DELETEME
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd of=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME if=/dev/zero bs=10M
count=9600
9600+0 records in
9600+0 records out
100663296000 bytes (101 GB) copied, 145.212 s, 693 MB/s
Both clients each doing a 140GB write (2x dogbreath's RAM) at the
same
time to two different rbds in the same pool.
root@ty3:~# rm /test-rbd-fs/DELETEME
root@ty3:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME bs=10M
count=14000
14000+0 records in
14000+0 records out
146800640000 bytes (147 GB) copied, 412.404 s, 356 MB/s
root@ty3:~#
[root@dogbreath ~]# rm -f /test-rbd-fs/DELETEME
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd of=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME if=/dev/zero bs=10M
count=14000
14000+0 records in
14000+0 records out
146800640000 bytes (147 GB) copied, 433.351 s, 339 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]#
Onto reads...
Also we found that doing iflag=direct increased read performance.
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd of=/dev/null if=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME bs=10M
count=160
160+0 records in
160+0 records out
1677721600 bytes (1.7 GB) copied, 29.4242 s, 57.0 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]#
[root@dogbreath ~]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME of=/dev/null bs=4M
count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
41943040000 bytes (42 GB) copied, 382.334 s, 110 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]#
[root@dogbreath ~]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
[root@dogbreath ~]# dd if=/test-rbd-fs/DELETEME of=/dev/null bs=4M
count=10000 iflag=direct
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
41943040000 bytes (42 GB) copied, 150.774 s, 278 MB/s
[root@dogbreath ~]#
So what info do you want/where do I start hunting for my wumpus?
might also be worth looking at the size of the reads to see if
there's a
lot of fragmentation. Also, is this kernel rbd or qemu-kvm?
Thing that got us was the back-end storage was showing very low read
rates. Where as when writing we could see almost a 2xWrite rate back to
physical disk (we assume that is Journal+data as the 2x is not from the
word go but ramps up around the 3-5 second mark)
It is kernel rbd at the moment, we will be testing qemu-kvm after
things
make sense.
Regards
Malcolm Haak
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