Dear Ceph Users,

We have set up a cephFS cluster with 6 osd machines, each with 16 8TB
harddisk. Ceph version is luminous 12.2.5. We created one data pool with
these hard disks and created another meta data pool with 3 ssd. We created
a MDS with 65GB cache size.

But our users are keep complaining that cephFS is too slow. What we
observed is cephFS is fast when we switch to a new MDS instance, once the
cache fills up (which will happen very fast), client became very slow when
performing some basic filesystem operation such as `ls`.

What we know is our user are putting lots of small files into the cephFS,
now there are around 560 Million files. We didn't see high CPU wait on MDS
instance and meta data pool just used around 200MB space.

My question is, what is the relationship between the metadata pool and MDS?
Is this performance issue caused by the hardware behind meta data pool? Why
the meta data pool only used 200MB space, and we saw 3k iops on each of
these three ssds, why can't MDS cache all these 200MB into memory?

Thanks very much!


Best Regards,

Albert
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