On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 11:16 AM Albert Yue <transuranium....@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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`. >
It seems that clients hold lots of unused inodes their icache, which prevent mds from trimming corresponding objects from its cache. mimic has command "ceph daemon mds.x cache drop" to ask client to drop its cache. I'm also working on a patch that make kclient client release unused inodes. For luminous, there is not much we can do, except periodically run "echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" on each client. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
