On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Brett Niver <bni...@redhat.com> wrote:

> What is your workload like?  Do you have a single or multiple active
> MDS ranks configured?


User traffic is heavy. I can't really say in terms of mb/s or iops but it's
an email server with 25k+ users, usually about 6k simultaneously connected
receiving and reading emails.
I have only one active MDS configured. The others are Stand-by.

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:18 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@42on.com> wrote:

>
> > Op 9 mei 2017 om 20:26 schreef Brady Deetz <bde...@gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > If I'm reading your cluster diagram correctly, I'm seeing a 1gbps
> > interconnect, presumably cat6. Due to the additional latency of
> performing
> > metadata operations, I could see cephfs performing at those speeds. Are
> you
> > using jumbo frames? Also are you routing?
> >
> > If you're routing, the router will introduce additional latency that an
> l2
> > network wouldn't experience.
> >
>
> Partially true. I am running various Ceph clusters using L3 routing and
> with a decent router the latency for routing a packet is minimal, like 0.02
> ms or so.
>
> Ceph spends much more time in the CPU then it will take the network to
> forward that IP-packet.
>
> I wouldn't be too afraid to run Ceph over a L3 network.
>
> Wido
>
> > On May 9, 2017 12:01 PM, "Webert de Souza Lima" <webert.b...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm been using cephfs for a while but never really evaluated its
> > > performance.
> > > As I put up a new ceph cluster, I though that I should run a benchmark
> to
> > > see if I'm going the right way.
> > >
> > > By the results I got, I see that RBD performs *a lot* better in
> > > comparison to cephfs.
> > >
> > > The cluster is like this:
> > >  - 2 hosts with one SSD OSD each.
> > >        this hosts have 2 pools: cephfs_metadata and cephfs_cache (for
> > > cache tiering).
> > >  - 3 hosts with 5 HDD OSDs each.
> > >       this hosts have 1 pool: cephfs_data.
> > >
> > > all details, cluster set up and results can be seen here:
> > > https://justpaste.it/167fr
> > >
> > > I created the RBD pools the same way as the CEPHFS pools except for the
> > > number of PGs in the data pool.
> > >
> > > I wonder why that difference or if I'm doing something wrong.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Webert Lima
> > > DevOps Engineer at MAV Tecnologia
> > > *Belo Horizonte - Brasil*
> > >
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