Dear all, Two days ago I added very few disks to a ceph cluster and run into a problem I have never seen before when doing that. The entire cluster was deployed with mimic 13.2.2 and recently upgraded to 13.2.8. This is the first time I added OSDs under 13.2.8.
I had a few hosts that I needed to add 1 or 2 OSDs to and I started with one that needed 1. Procedure was as usual: ceph osd set norebalance deploy additional OSD The OSD came up and PGs started peering, so far so good. To my surprise, however, I started seeing health-warnings about slow ping times: Long heartbeat ping times on back interface seen, longest is 1171.910 msec Long heartbeat ping times on front interface seen, longest is 1180.764 msec After peering it looked like it got better and I waited it out until the messages were gone. This took a really long time, at least 5-10 minutes. I went on to the next host and deployed 2 new OSDs this time. Same as above, but with much worse consequences. Apparently, the ping times exceeded a timeout for a very short moment and an OSD was marked out for ca. 2 seconds. Now all hell broke loose. I got health errors with the dreaded "backfill_toofull", undersized PGs and a large amount of degraded objects. I don't know what is causing what, but I ended up with data loss by just adding 2 disks. We have dedicated network hardware and each of the OSD hosts has 20GBit front and 40GBit back network capacity (LACP trunking). There are currently no more than 16 disks per server. The disks were added to an SSD pool. There was no traffic nor any other exceptional load on the system. I have ganglia resource monitoring on all nodes and cannot see a single curve going up. Network, CPU utilisation, load, everything below measurement accuracy. The hosts and network are quite overpowered and dimensioned to host many more OSDs (in future expansions). I have three questions, ordered by how urgently I need an answer: 1) I need to add more disks next week and need a workaround. Will something like this help avoiding the heartbeat time-out: ceph osd set noout ceph osd set nodown ceph osd set norebalance 2) The "lost" shards of the degraded objects were obviously still on the cluster somewhere. Is there any way to force the cluster to rescan OSDs for the shards that went orphan during the incident? 3) This smells a bit like a bug that requires attention. I was probably just lucky that I only lost 1 shard per PG. Has something similar reported before? Is this fixed in 13.2.10? Is it something new? Any settings that need to be looked at? If logs need to be collected, I can do so during my next attempt. However, I cannot risk data integrity of a production cluster and, therefore, probably not run the original procedure again. Many thanks for your help and best regards, ================= Frank Schilder AIT Risø Campus Bygning 109, rum S14 _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io
