[ceph-users] Re: bluefs_buffered_io=false performance regression

2021-01-11 Thread Robert Sander
Hi Marc and Dan, thanks for your quick responses assuring me that we did nothing totally wrong. Regards -- Robert Sander Heinlein Support GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin http://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: 030 / 405051-43 Fax: 030 / 405051-19 Zwangsangaben lt. §35a GmbHG: HRB 93818 B

[ceph-users] Re: bluefs_buffered_io=false performance regression

2021-01-11 Thread Dan van der Ster
And to add some references, there is a PR on hold here: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/38044 which links some relevant trackers entries. Outside of large block.db removals (e.g. from backfilling or snap trimming) we didn't notice a huge difference -- though that is not conclusive. There are

[ceph-users] Re: bluefs_buffered_io=false performance regression

2021-01-11 Thread Mark Nelson
Hi Robert, We are definitely aware of this issue.  It appears to often be related to snap trimming and we believe possibly related to excessive thrashing of the rocksdb block cache.  I suspect that when bluefs_buffered_io is enabled it hides the issue and people don't notice the problem, but