hi,
I have a few question about the rbd performance. I have a small ceph
installation, three osd server one monitor server and one compute node
which maps a rbd image to a block device, all server a connectet via a
dedicated 1Gbs network.
Each osd is capable of doing around 90MB/s tested with osd bench.
But if I test the write speed of the rbd block device the performance
ist quite poor.
I do the test with
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rbd0 bs=1M count=10000 oflag=direct,
I get a throughput around 25MB/s.
I used wireshark to graph the network throughput, the image is
http://tuxadero.com/multistorage/ceph.jpg
as you can see the throughput is not smooth.
The graph for the test without the oflag=direct is
http://tuxadero.com/multistorage/ceph2.jpg
which is much better, but I the compute node uses around 4-5G of it's
RAM as a writeback cache, which is not acceptable for my application.
For comparison the graph for a scp transfer.
http://tuxadero.com/multistorage/scp.jpg
I read in the ceph doku, that ever "package" has to be commited to the
disk on the osd, before it is acknowledged to the client, could you
please expalain what a package is? Probably not a TCP package.
And on the mailinglist was a discussion about a writeback window, to my
understanding it say how many byte can be
unacknowledged in transit, is that right?
How could I activate it?
Thanks for your time.
Best Regards,
martin
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