36 OSDs

Each of 4 storage servers has 9 1TB SSD drives, each drive as 1 osd (no
RAID) == 36 OSDs
Each drive is one LVM group, with two volumes - one volume for the osd, one
volume for the journal
Each osd is formatted with xfs


On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Maged Mokhtar <mmokh...@petasan.org> wrote:

> measuring resource load as outlined earlier will show if the drives are
> performing well or not. Also how many osds do you have  ?
>
> On 2017-10-18 19:26, Russell Glaue wrote:
>
> The SSD drives are Crucial M500
> A Ceph user did some benchmarks and found it had good performance
> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ceph-bad-performance-in-
> qemu-guests.21551/
>
> However, a user comment from 3 years ago on the blog post you linked to
> says to avoid the Crucial M500
>
> Yet, this performance posting tells that the Crucial M500 is good.
> https://inside.servers.com/ssd-performance-2017-c4307a92dea
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Maged Mokhtar <mmokh...@petasan.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Check out the following link: some SSDs perform bad in Ceph due to sync
>> writes to journal
>>
>> https://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2014/10/10/ceph-how-to-tes
>> t-if-your-ssd-is-suitable-as-a-journal-device/
>>
>> Anther thing that can help is to re-run the rados 32 threads as stress
>> and view resource usage using atop (or collectl/sar) to check for %busy cpu
>> and %busy disks to give you an idea of what is holding down your
>> cluster..for example: if cpu/disk % are all low then check your
>> network/switches.  If disk %busy is high (90%) for all disks then your
>> disks are the bottleneck: which either means you have SSDs that are not
>> suitable for Ceph or you have too few disks (which i doubt is the case). If
>> only 1 disk %busy is high, there may be something wrong with this disk
>> should be removed.
>>
>> Maged
>>
>> On 2017-10-18 18:13, Russell Glaue wrote:
>>
>> In my previous post, in one of my points I was wondering if the request
>> size would increase if I enabled jumbo packets. currently it is disabled.
>>
>> @jdillama: The qemu settings for both these two guest machines, with
>> RAID/LVM and Ceph/rbd images, are the same. I am not thinking that changing
>> the qemu settings of "min_io_size=<limited to 16bits>,opt_io_size=<RBD
>> image object size>" will directly address the issue.
>>
>> @mmokhtar: Ok. So you suggest the request size is the result of the
>> problem and not the cause of the problem. meaning I should go after a
>> different issue.
>>
>> I have been trying to get write speeds up to what people on this mail
>> list are discussing.
>> It seems that for our configuration, as it matches others, we should be
>> getting about 70MB/s write speed.
>> But we are not getting that.
>> Single writes to disk are lucky to get 5MB/s to 6MB/s, but are typically
>> 1MB/s to 2MB/s.
>> Monitoring the entire Ceph cluster (using http://cephdash.crapworks.de/),
>> I have seen very rare momentary spikes up to 30MB/s.
>>
>> My storage network is connected via a 10Gb switch
>> I have 4 storage servers with a LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 controller
>> Each storage server has 9 1TB SSD drives, each drive as 1 osd (no RAID)
>> Each drive is one LVM group, with two volumes - one volume for the osd,
>> one volume for the journal
>> Each osd is formatted with xfs
>> The crush map is simple: default->rack->[host[1..4]->osd] with an evenly
>> distributed weight
>> The redundancy is triple replication
>>
>> While I have read comments that having the osd and journal on the same
>> disk decreases write speed, I have also read that once past 8 OSDs per node
>> this is the recommended configuration, however this is also the reason why
>> SSD drives are used exclusively for OSDs in the storage nodes.
>> None-the-less, I was still expecting write speeds to be above 30MB/s, not
>> below 6MB/s.
>> Even at 12x slower than the RAID, using my previously posted iostat data
>> set, I should be seeing write speeds that average 10MB/s, not 2MB/s.
>>
>> In regards to the rados benchmark tests you asked me to run, here is the
>> output:
>>
>> [centos7]# rados bench -p scbench -b 4096 30 write -t 1
>> Maintaining 1 concurrent writes of 4096 bytes to objects of size 4096 for
>> up to 30 seconds or 0 objects
>> Object prefix: benchmark_data_hamms.sys.cu.cait.org_85049
>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>> lat(s)
>>     0       0         0         0         0         0           -
>>   0
>>     1       1       201       200   0.78356   0.78125  0.00522307
>>  0.00496574
>>     2       1       469       468  0.915303   1.04688  0.00437497
>>  0.00426141
>>     3       1       741       740  0.964371    1.0625  0.00512853
>> 0.0040434
>>     4       1       888       887  0.866739  0.574219  0.00307699
>>  0.00450177
>>     5       1      1147      1146  0.895725   1.01172  0.00376454
>> 0.0043559
>>     6       1      1325      1324  0.862293  0.695312  0.00459443
>>  0.004525
>>     7       1      1494      1493   0.83339  0.660156  0.00461002
>>  0.00458452
>>     8       1      1736      1735  0.847369  0.945312  0.00253971
>>  0.00460458
>>     9       1      1998      1997  0.866922   1.02344  0.00236573
>>  0.00450172
>>    10       1      2260      2259  0.882563   1.02344  0.00262179
>>  0.00442152
>>    11       1      2526      2525  0.896775   1.03906  0.00336914
>>  0.00435092
>>    12       1      2760      2759  0.898203  0.914062  0.00351827
>>  0.00434491
>>    13       1      3016      3015  0.906025         1  0.00335703
>>  0.00430691
>>    14       1      3257      3256  0.908545  0.941406  0.00332344
>>  0.00429495
>>    15       1      3490      3489  0.908644  0.910156  0.00318815
>>  0.00426387
>>    16       1      3728      3727  0.909952  0.929688   0.0032881
>>  0.00428895
>>    17       1      3986      3985  0.915703   1.00781  0.00274809
>> 0.0042614
>>    18       1      4250      4249  0.922116   1.03125  0.00287411
>>  0.00423214
>>    19       1      4505      4504  0.926003  0.996094  0.00375435
>>  0.00421442
>> 2017-10-18 10:56:31.267173 min lat: 0.00181259 max lat: 0.270553 avg lat:
>> 0.00420118
>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>> lat(s)
>>    20       1      4757      4756  0.928915  0.984375  0.00463972
>>  0.00420118
>>    21       1      5009      5008   0.93155  0.984375  0.00360065
>>  0.00418937
>>    22       1      5235      5234  0.929329  0.882812  0.00626214
>>  0.004199
>>    23       1      5500      5499  0.933925   1.03516  0.00466584
>>  0.00417836
>>    24       1      5708      5707  0.928861    0.8125  0.00285727
>>  0.00420146
>>    25       0      5964      5964  0.931858   1.00391  0.00417383
>> 0.0041881
>>    26       1      6216      6215  0.933722  0.980469   0.0041009
>>  0.00417915
>>    27       1      6481      6480  0.937474   1.03516  0.00307484
>>  0.00416118
>>    28       1      6745      6744  0.940819   1.03125  0.00266329
>>  0.00414777
>>    29       1      7003      7002  0.943124   1.00781  0.00305905
>>  0.00413758
>>    30       1      7271      7270  0.946578   1.04688  0.00391017
>>  0.00412238
>> Total time run:         30.006060
>> Total writes made:      7272
>> Write size:             4096
>> Object size:            4096
>> Bandwidth (MB/sec):     0.946684
>> Stddev Bandwidth:       0.123762
>> Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 1.0625
>> Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 0.574219
>> Average IOPS:           242
>> Stddev IOPS:            31
>> Max IOPS:               272
>> Min IOPS:               147
>> Average Latency(s):     0.00412247
>> Stddev Latency(s):      0.00648437
>> Max latency(s):         0.270553
>> Min latency(s):         0.00175318
>> Cleaning up (deleting benchmark objects)
>> Clean up completed and total clean up time :29.069423
>>
>> [centos7]# rados bench -p scbench -b 4096 30 write -t 32
>> Maintaining 32 concurrent writes of 4096 bytes to objects of size 4096
>> for up to 30 seconds or 0 objects
>> Object prefix: benchmark_data_hamms.sys.cu.cait.org_86076
>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>> lat(s)
>>     0       0         0         0         0         0           -
>>   0
>>     1      32      3013      2981   11.6438   11.6445  0.00247906
>>  0.00572026
>>     2      32      5349      5317   10.3834     9.125  0.00246662
>>  0.00932016
>>     3      32      5707      5675    7.3883   1.39844  0.00389774
>> 0.0156726
>>     4      32      5895      5863   5.72481  0.734375     1.13137
>> 0.0167946
>>     5      32      6869      6837   5.34068   3.80469   0.0027652
>> 0.0226577
>>     6      32      8901      8869   5.77306    7.9375   0.0053211
>> 0.0216259
>>     7      32     10800     10768   6.00785   7.41797  0.00358187
>> 0.0207418
>>     8      32     11825     11793   5.75728   4.00391  0.00217575
>> 0.0215494
>>     9      32     12941     12909    5.6019   4.35938  0.00278512
>> 0.0220567
>>    10      32     13317     13285   5.18849   1.46875   0.0034973
>> 0.0240665
>>    11      32     16189     16157   5.73653   11.2188  0.00255841
>> 0.0212708
>>    12      32     16749     16717   5.44077    2.1875  0.00330334
>> 0.0215915
>>    13      32     16756     16724   5.02436 0.0273438  0.00338994
>>  0.021849
>>    14      32     17908     17876   4.98686       4.5  0.00402598
>> 0.0244568
>>    15      32     17936     17904   4.66171  0.109375  0.00375799
>> 0.0245545
>>    16      32     18279     18247   4.45409   1.33984  0.00483873
>> 0.0267929
>>    17      32     18372     18340   4.21346  0.363281  0.00505187
>> 0.0275887
>>    18      32     19403     19371   4.20309   4.02734  0.00545154
>>  0.029348
>>    19      31     19845     19814   4.07295   1.73047  0.00254726
>> 0.0306775
>> 2017-10-18 10:57:58.160536 min lat: 0.0015005 max lat: 2.27707 avg lat:
>> 0.0307559
>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>> lat(s)
>>    20      31     20401     20370   3.97788   2.17188  0.00307238
>> 0.0307559
>>    21      32     21338     21306   3.96254   3.65625  0.00464563
>> 0.0312288
>>    22      32     23057     23025    4.0876   6.71484  0.00296295
>> 0.0299267
>>    23      32     23057     23025   3.90988         0           -
>> 0.0299267
>>    24      32     23803     23771   3.86837   1.45703  0.00301471
>> 0.0312804
>>    25      32     24112     24080   3.76191   1.20703  0.00191063
>> 0.0331462
>>    26      31     25303     25272   3.79629   4.65625  0.00794399
>> 0.0329129
>>    27      32     28803     28771   4.16183    13.668   0.0109817
>> 0.0297469
>>    28      32     29592     29560   4.12325   3.08203  0.00188185
>> 0.0301911
>>    29      32     30595     30563   4.11616   3.91797  0.00379099
>> 0.0296794
>>    30      32     31031     30999   4.03572   1.70312  0.00283347
>> 0.0302411
>> Total time run:         30.822350
>> Total writes made:      31032
>> Write size:             4096
>> Object size:            4096
>> Bandwidth (MB/sec):     3.93282
>> Stddev Bandwidth:       3.66265
>> Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 13.668
>> Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 0
>> Average IOPS:           1006
>> Stddev IOPS:            937
>> Max IOPS:               3499
>> Min IOPS:               0
>> Average Latency(s):     0.0317779
>> Stddev Latency(s):      0.164076
>> Max latency(s):         2.27707
>> Min latency(s):         0.0013848
>> Cleaning up (deleting benchmark objects)
>> Clean up completed and total clean up time :20.166559
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Maged Mokhtar <mmokh...@petasan.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> First a general comment: local RAID will be faster than Ceph for a
>>> single threaded (queue depth=1) io operation test. A single thread Ceph
>>> client will see at best same disk speed for reads and for writes 4-6 times
>>> slower than single disk. Not to mention the latency of local disks will
>>> much better. Where Ceph shines is when you have many concurrent ios, it
>>> scales whereas RAID will decrease speed per client as you add more.
>>>
>>> Having said that, i would recommend running rados/rbd bench-write and
>>> measure 4k iops at 1 and 32 threads to get a better idea of how your
>>> cluster performs:
>>>
>>> ceph osd pool create testpool 256 256
>>> rados bench -p testpool -b 4096 30 write -t 1
>>> rados bench -p testpool -b 4096 30 write -t 32
>>> ceph osd pool delete testpool testpool --yes-i-really-really-mean-it
>>>
>>> rbd bench-write test-image --io-threads=1 --io-size 4096 --io-pattern
>>> rand --rbd_cache=false
>>> rbd bench-write test-image --io-threads=32 --io-size 4096 --io-pattern
>>> rand --rbd_cache=false
>>>
>>> I think the request size difference you see is due to the io scheduler
>>> in the case of local disks having more ios to re-group so has a better
>>> chance in generating larger requests. Depending on your kernel, the io
>>> scheduler may be different for rbd (blq-mq) vs sdx (cfq) but again i would
>>> think the request size is a result not a cause.
>>>
>>> Maged
>>>
>>> On 2017-10-17 23:12, Russell Glaue wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running ceph jewel on 5 nodes with SSD OSDs.
>>> I have an LVM image on a local RAID of spinning disks.
>>> I have an RBD image on in a pool of SSD disks.
>>> Both disks are used to run an almost identical CentOS 7 system.
>>> Both systems were installed with the same kickstart, though the disk
>>> partitioning is different.
>>>
>>> I want to make writes on the the ceph image faster. For example, lots of
>>> writes to MySQL (via MySQL replication) on a ceph SSD image are about 10x
>>> slower than on a spindle RAID disk image. The MySQL server on ceph rbd
>>> image has a hard time keeping up in replication.
>>>
>>> So I wanted to test writes on these two systems
>>> I have a 10GB compressed (gzip) file on both servers.
>>> I simply gunzip the file on both systems, while running iostat.
>>>
>>> The primary difference I see in the results is the average size of the
>>> request to the disk.
>>> CentOS7-lvm-raid-sata writes a lot faster to disk, and the size of the
>>> request is about 40x, but the number of writes per second is about the same
>>> This makes me want to conclude that the smaller size of the request for
>>> CentOS7-ceph-rbd-ssd system is the cause of it being slow.
>>>
>>>
>>> How can I make the size of the request larger for ceph rbd images, so I
>>> can increase the write throughput?
>>> Would this be related to having jumbo packets enabled in my ceph storage
>>> network?
>>>
>>>
>>> Here is a sample of the results:
>>>
>>> [CentOS7-lvm-raid-sata]
>>> $ gunzip large10gFile.gz &
>>> $ iostat -x vg_root-lv_var -d 5 -m -N
>>> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rMB/s    wMB/s
>>> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
>>> ...
>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   30.60  452.20    13.60   222.15
>>>  1000.04     8.69   14.05    0.99   14.93   2.07 100.04
>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   88.20  182.00    39.20    89.43
>>> 974.95     4.65    9.82    0.99   14.10   3.70 100.00
>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   75.45  278.24    33.53   136.70
>>> 985.73     4.36   33.26    1.34   41.91   0.59  20.84
>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00  111.60  181.80    49.60    89.34
>>> 969.84     2.60    8.87    0.81   13.81   0.13   3.90
>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   68.40  109.60    30.40    53.63
>>> 966.87     1.51    8.46    0.84   13.22   0.80  14.16
>>> ...
>>>
>>> [CentOS7-ceph-rbd-ssd]
>>> $ gunzip large10gFile.gz &
>>> $ iostat -x vg_root-lv_data -d 5 -m -N
>>> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rMB/s    wMB/s
>>> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
>>> ...
>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   46.40  167.80     0.88     1.46
>>>  22.36     1.23    5.66    2.47    6.54   4.52  96.82
>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   16.60   55.20     0.36     0.14
>>>  14.44     0.99   13.91    9.12   15.36  13.71  98.46
>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   69.00  173.80     1.34     1.32
>>>  22.48     1.25    5.19    3.77    5.75   3.94  95.68
>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   74.40  293.40     1.37     1.47
>>>  15.83     1.22    3.31    2.06    3.63   2.54  93.26
>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   90.80  359.00     1.96     3.41
>>>  24.45     1.63    3.63    1.94    4.05   2.10  94.38
>>> ...
>>>
>>> [iostat key]
>>> w/s == The number (after merges) of write requests completed per second
>>> for the device.
>>> wMB/s == The number of sectors (kilobytes, megabytes) written to the
>>> device per second.
>>> avgrq-sz == The average size (in kilobytes) of the requests that were
>>> issued to the device.
>>> avgqu-sz == The average queue length of the requests that were issued to
>>> the device.
>>>
>>>
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