On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Mike Miller <millermike...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > you have given up too early. rsync is not a nice workload for cephfs, in > particular, most linux kernel clients cephfs will end up caching all > inodes/dentries. The result is that mds servers crash due to memory > limitations. And rsync basically screens all inodes/dentries so it is the > perfect application to gobble up all inode caps.
While historically there have been client bugs that prevented the MDS from enforcing cache size limits, this is not expected behaviour -- manually calling drop_caches is most definitely a workaround and not something that I would recommend unless you're stuck with a known-buggy client version for some reason. Just felt the need to point that out in case people started picking this up as a best practice! Cheers, John > We run a cronjob script flush_cache every few (2-5) minutes: > > #!/bin/bash > echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > on all machines that mount cephfs. There is no performance drop in the > client machines, but happily, the mds congestion is solved by this. > > We also went the rbd way before this, but for large rbd images we much > prefer cephfs instead. > > Regards, > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
