Hi, Thanks for the advice Brgds -----Message d'origine----- De : Sage Weil [mailto:sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Envoyé : mardi 17 novembre 2015 14:41 À : CHEVALIER Ghislain IMT/OLPS Cc : ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : Re: [CEPH] OSD daemons running with a large number of threads On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, ghislain.chevalier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, > > Context: > Firefly 0.80.9 > Ubuntu 14.04.1 > Almost a production platform in an openstack environment > 176 OSD (SAS and SSD), 2 crushmap-oriented storage classes , 8 servers > in 2 rooms, 3 monitors on openstack controllers > Usage: Rados Gateway for object service and RBD as back-end for Cinder > and Glance > > Issue: > We are currently running performances tests on this cluster before turning it to production. > We created cinder volumes (attached to Ceph Back End) on virtual machines and we use FIO to stress the cluster. > A very large number of threads are created per OSD daemon (about 1000). This is normal. The init scripts set the max open files ulimit to a high value (usually 4194304 to avoid any possibility of hitting it) but you may need to set /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max to something big if your cluster is large. sage _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html