Martin, 

I have been using Samsung 840 Pro for journals about 2 years now and have just 
replaced all my samsung drives with Intel. We have found a lot of performance 
issues with 840 Pro (we are using 128mb). In particular, a very strange 
behaviour with using 4 partitions (with 50% underprovisioning left as empty 
unpartitioned space on the drive) where the drive would grind to almost a halt 
after a few weeks of use. I was getting 100% utilisation on the drives doing 
just 3-4MB/s writes. This was not the case when I've installed the new drives. 
Manual Trimming helps for a few weeks until the same happens again. 

This has been happening with all 840 Pro ssds that we have and contacting 
Samsung Support has proven to be utterly useless. They do not want to speak 
with you until you install windows and run their monkey utility ((. 

Also, i've noticed the latencies of the Samsung 840 Pro ssd drives to be about 
15-20 slower compared with a consumer grade Intel drives, like Intel 520. 
According to ceph osd pef, I would consistently get higher figures on the osds 
with Samsung journal drive compared with the Intel drive on the same server. 
Something like 2-3ms for Intel vs 40-50ms for Samsungs. 

At some point we had enough with Samsungs and scrapped them. 

Andrei 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Martin B Nielsen" <mar...@unity3d.com>
> To: "Philippe Schwarz" <p...@schwarz-fr.net>
> Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com
> Sent: Saturday, 28 February, 2015 11:51:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Extreme slowness in SSD cluster with 3
> nodes and 9 OSD with 3.16-3 kernel

> Hi,

> I cannot recognize that picture; we've been using samsumg 840 pro in
> production for almost 2 years now - and have had 1 fail.

> We run a 8node mixed ssd/platter cluster with 4x samsung 840 pro
> (500gb) in each so that is 32x ssd.

> They've written ~25TB data in avg each.

> Using the dd you had inside an existing semi-busy mysql-guest I get:

> 102400000 bytes (102 MB) copied, 5.58218 s, 18.3 MB/s

> Which is still not a lot, but I think it is more a limitation of our
> setup/load.

> We are using dumpling.

> All that aside, I would prob. go with something tried and tested if I
> was to redo it today - we haven't had any issues, but it is still
> nice to use something you know should have a baseline performance
> and can compare to that.

> Cheers,
> Martin

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Philippe Schwarz <
> p...@schwarz-fr.net > wrote:

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> > Le 28/02/2015 12:19, mad Engineer a écrit :
> 

> > > Hello All,
> 
> > >
> 
> > > I am trying ceph-firefly 0.80.8
> 
> > > (69eaad7f8308f21573c604f121956e64679a52a7) with 9 OSD ,all
> > > Samsung
> 
> > > SSD 850 EVO on 3 servers with 24 G RAM,16 cores @2.27 Ghz Ubuntu
> 
> > > 14.04 LTS with 3.16-3 kernel.All are connected to 10G ports with
> 
> > > maximum MTU.There are no extra disks for journaling and also
> > > there
> 
> > > are no separate network for replication and data transfer.All 3
> 
> > > nodes are also hosting monitoring process.Operating system runs
> > > on
> 
> > > SATA disk.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > When doing a sequential benchmark using "dd" on RBD, mounted on
> 
> > > client as ext4 its taking 110s to write 100Mb data at an average
> 
> > > speed of 926Kbps.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > time dd if=/dev/zero of=hello bs=4k count=25000 oflag=direct
> 
> > > 25000+0 records in 25000+0 records out 102400000 bytes (102 MB)
> 
> > > copied, 110.582 s, 926 kB/s
> 
> > >
> 
> > > real 1m50.585s user 0m0.106s sys 0m2.233s
> 
> > >
> 
> > > While doing this directly on ssd mount point shows:
> 
> > >
> 
> > > time dd if=/dev/zero of=hello bs=4k count=25000 oflag=direct
> 
> > > 25000+0 records in 25000+0 records out 102400000 bytes (102 MB)
> 
> > > copied, 1.38567 s, 73.9 MB/s
> 
> > >
> 
> > > OSDs are in XFS with these extra arguments :
> 
> > >
> 
> > > rw,noatime,inode64,logbsize=256k,delaylog,allocsize=4M
> 
> > >
> 
> > > ceph.conf
> 
> > >
> 
> > > [global] fsid = 7d889081-7826-439c-9fe5-d4e57480d9be
> 
> > > mon_initial_members = ceph1, ceph2, ceph3 mon_host =
> 
> > > 10.99.10.118,10.99.10.119,10.99.10.120 auth_cluster_required =
> 
> > > cephx auth_service_required = cephx auth_client_required = cephx
> 
> > > filestore_xattr_use_omap = true osd_pool_default_size = 2
> 
> > > osd_pool_default_min_size = 2 osd_pool_default_pg_num = 450
> 
> > > osd_pool_default_pgp_num = 450 max_open_files = 131072
> 
> > >
> 
> > > [osd] osd_mkfs_type = xfs osd_op_threads = 8 osd_disk_threads = 4
> 
> > > osd_mount_options_xfs =
> 
> > > "rw,noatime,inode64,logbsize=256k,delaylog,allocsize=4M"
> 
> > >
> 
> > >
> 
> > > on our traditional storage with Full SAS disk, same "dd"
> > > completes
> 
> > > in 16s with an average write speed of 6Mbps.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Rados bench:
> 
> > >
> 
> > > rados bench -p rbd 10 write Maintaining 16 concurrent writes of
> 
> > > 4194304 bytes for up to 10 seconds or 0 objects Object prefix:
> 
> > > benchmark_data_ceph1_2977 sec Cur ops started finished avg MB/s
> 
> > > cur MB/s last lat avg lat 0 0 0 0
> 
> > > 0 0 - 0 1 16 94 78
> 
> > > 311.821 312 0.041228 0.140132 2 16 192 176
> 
> > > 351.866 392 0.106294 0.175055 3 16 275 259
> 
> > > 345.216 332 0.076795 0.166036 4 16 302 286
> 
> > > 285.912 108 0.043888 0.196419 5 16 395 379
> 
> > > 303.11 372 0.126033 0.207488 6 16 501 485
> 
> > > 323.242 424 0.125972 0.194559 7 16 621 605
> 
> > > 345.621 480 0.194155 0.183123 8 16 730 714
> 
> > > 356.903 436 0.086678 0.176099 9 16 814 798
> 
> > > 354.572 336 0.081567 0.174786 10 16 832
> 
> > > 816 326.313 72 0.037431 0.182355 11 16 833
> 
> > > 817 297.013 4 0.533326 0.182784 Total time run:
> 
> > > 11.489068 Total writes made: 833 Write size:
> 
> > > 4194304 Bandwidth (MB/sec): 290.015
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Stddev Bandwidth: 175.723 Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 480 Min
> 
> > > bandwidth (MB/sec): 0 Average Latency: 0.220582 Stddev
> 
> > > Latency: 0.343697 Max latency: 2.85104 Min
> 
> > > latency: 0.035381
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Our ultimate aim is to replace existing SAN with ceph,but for
> > > that
> 
> > > it should meet minimum 8000 iops.Can any one help me with
> > > this,OSD
> 
> > > are SSD,CPU has good clock speed,backend network is good but
> > > still
> 
> > > we are not able to extract full capability of SSD disks.
> 
> > >
> 
> > >
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Thanks,
> 

> > Hi, i'm new to ceph so, don't consider my words as holy truth.
> 

> > It seems that Samsung 840 (so i assume 850) are crappy for ceph :
> 

> > MTBF :
> 
> > http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2014-November/044258.html
> 
> > Bandwidth
> 
> > :
> > http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2014-December/045247.html
> 

> > And according to a confirmed user of Ceph/ProxmoX, Samsung SSDs
> > should
> 
> > be avoided if possible in ceph storage.
> 

> > Apart from that, it seems there was an limitation in ceph for the
> > use
> 
> > of the complete bandwidth available in SSDs; but i think with less
> 
> > than 1Mb/s you haven't hit this limit.
> 

> > I remind you that i'm not a ceph-guru (far from that, indeed), so
> > feel
> 
> > free to disagree; i'm on the way to improve my knowledge.
> 

> > Best regards.
> 

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