I had to make a cronjob to trigger compact on the MONs as well.
Ancient version, though.

Jan

> On 11 Aug 2016, at 10:09, Wido den Hollander <w...@42on.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Op 11 augustus 2016 om 9:56 schreef Eugen Block <ebl...@nde.ag>:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> we have a working cluster based on Hammer with 4 nodes, 19 OSDs and 3 MONs.
>> Now after a couple of weeks we noticed that we're running out of disk  
>> space on one of the nodes in /var.
>> Similar to [1] there are two large LOG files in  
>> /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-d/store.db/ and I already figured they are  
>> managed when the respective MON is restarted. But the MONs are not  
>> restarted regularly so the log files can grow for months and fill up  
>> the file system.
>> 
> 
> Warning! These are not your regular log files. They are binary logs of 
> LevelDB which are mandatory for the MONs to work!
> 
>> I was thinking about adding another file in /etc/logrotate.d/ and  
>> trigger a monitor restart once a week. But I'm not sure if it's  
>> recommended to restart all MONs at the same time, which could happen  
>> if someone started logrotate manually.
>> So my question is, how do you guys manage that and how is it supposed  
>> to be handled? I'd really appreciate any insights!
>> 
> You shouldn't have to worry about that. The MONs should compact and rotate 
> those logs themselve.
> 
> They compact their store on start, so that works for you, but they should do 
> this while running.
> 
> What version of Ceph are you running exactly?
> 
> What is the output of ceph -s? MONs usually only compact when the cluster is 
> healthy.
> 
> Wido
> 
>> Regards,
>> Eugen
>> 
>> [1]  
>> http://ceph-users.ceph.narkive.com/PBL3kuhq/large-log-like-files-on-monitor
>> 
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