As always, appreciate the help and knowledge of the collective ML mind. > If you aren't using DC SSDs and this is prod, then I wouldn't recommend > moving towards this model.
These are Samsung SM863a’s and Micron 5100 MAXs, all roughly 6-12 months old, with the most worn drive showing 23 P/E cycles so far. Thanks again, Reed > On Oct 12, 2017, at 4:18 PM, John Spray <jsp...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Reed Dier <reed.d...@focusvq.com> wrote: >> I found an older ML entry from 2015 and not much else, mostly detailing the >> doing performance testing to dispel poor performance numbers presented by >> OP. >> >> Currently have the metadata pool on my slow 24 HDDs, and am curious if I >> should see any increased performance with CephFS by moving the metadata pool >> onto SSD medium. > > It depends a lot on the workload. > > The primary advantage of moving metadata to dedicated drives > (especially SSDs) is that it makes the system more deterministic under > load. The most benefit will be seen on systems which had previously > had shared HDD OSDs that were fully saturated with data IO, and were > consequently suffering from very slow metadata writes. > > The impact will also depend on whether the metadata workload fit in > the mds_cache_size or not: if the MDS is frequently missing its cache > then the metadata pool latency will be more important. > > On systems with plenty of spare IOPs, with non-latency-sensitive > workloads, one might see little or no difference in performance when > using SSDs, as those systems would typically bottleneck on the number > of operations per second MDS daemon (CPU bound). Systems like that > would benefit more from multiple MDS daemons. > > Then again, systems with plenty of spare IOPs can quickly become > congested during recovery/backfill scenarios, so having SSDs for > metadata is a nice risk mitigation to keep the system more responsive > during bad times. > >> My thought is that the SSDs are lower latency, and it removes those iops >> from the slower spinning disks. >> >> My next concern would be write amplification on the SSDs. Would this thrash >> the SSD lifespan with tons of little writes or should it not be too heavy of >> a workload to matter too much? > > The MDS is comparatively efficient in how it writes out metadata: > journal writes get batched up into larger IOs, and if something is > frequently modified then it doesn't get written back every time (just > when it falls off the end of the journal, or periodically). > > If you've got SSDs that you're confident enough to use for data or > general workloads, I wouldn't be too worried about using them for > CephFS metadata. > >> My last question from the operations standpoint, if I use: >> # ceph osd pool set fs-metadata crush_ruleset <ssd ruleset> >> Will this just start to backfill the metadata pool over to the SSDs until it >> satisfies the crush requirements for size and failure domains and not skip a >> beat? > > On a healthy cluster, yes, this should just work. The level of impact > you see will depend on how much else you're trying to do with the > system. The prioritization of client IO vs. backfill IO has been > improved in luminous, so you should use luminous if you can. > > Because the overall size of the metadata pool is small, the smart > thing is probably to find a time that is quiet for your system, and do > the crush rule change at that time to get it over with quickly, rather > than trying to do it during normal operations. > > Cheers, > John > >> >> Obviously things like enabling dirfrags, and multiple MDS ranks will be more >> likely to improve performance with CephFS, but the metadata pool uses very >> little space, and I have the SSDs already, so I figured I would explore it >> as an option. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Reed >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
