Thanks Kyle, What's the unit for osd recovery max chunk? Also, how do I find out what my current values are for these osd options? -- Kevin Weiler IT IMC Financial Markets | 233 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 4300 | Chicago, IL 60606 | http://imc-chicago.com/ Phone: +1 312-204-7439 | Fax: +1 312-244-3301 | E-Mail: kevin.weiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On 10/28/13 6:22 PM, "Kyle Bader" <kyle.bader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >You can change some OSD tunables to lower the priority of backfills: > > osd recovery max chunk: 8388608 > osd recovery op priority: 2 > >In general a lower op priority means it will take longer for your >placement groups to go from degraded to active+clean, the idea is to >balance recovery time and not starving client requests. I've found 2 >to work well on our clusters, YMMV. > >On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Kevin Weiler ><Kevin.Weiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We have a ceph cluster that being used as a backing store for several >>VMs >> (windows and linux). We notice that when we reboot a node, the cluster >> enters a degraded state (which is expected), but when it begins to >>recover, >> it starts backfilling and it kills the performance of our VMs. The VMs >>run >> slow, or not at all, and also seem to switch it's ceph mounts to >>read-only. >> I was wondering 2 things: >> >> Shouldn't we be recovering instead of backfilling? It seems like >>backfilling >> is much more intensive operation >> Can we improve the recovery/backfill performance so that our VMs don't >>go >> down when there is a problem with the cluster? >> >> >> -- >> >> Kevin Weiler >> >> IT >> >> >> >> IMC Financial Markets | 233 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 4300 | Chicago, IL >>60606 >> | http://imc-chicago.com/ >> >> Phone: +1 312-204-7439 | Fax: +1 312-244-3301 | E-Mail: >> kevin.weiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person or >>entity to >> which it is addressed. >> >> It may contain confidential and /or privileged material. If someone >>other >> than the intended recipient should receive this e-mail, he / she shall >>not >> be entitled to read, disseminate, disclose or duplicate it. >> >> If you receive this e-mail unintentionally, please inform us >>immediately by >> "reply" and then delete it from your system. Although this information >>has >> been compiled with great care, neither IMC Financial Markets & Asset >> Management nor any of its related entities shall accept any >>responsibility >> for any errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in this information or >>for >> the consequences thereof, nor shall it be bound in any way by the >>contents >> of this e-mail or its attachments. In the event of incomplete or >>incorrect >> transmission, please return the e-mail to the sender and permanently >>delete >> this message and any attachments. >> >> Messages and attachments are scanned for all known viruses. Always scan >> attachments before opening them. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> > > > >-- > >Kyle ________________________________ The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain confidential and /or privileged material. If someone other than the intended recipient should receive this e-mail, he / she shall not be entitled to read, disseminate, disclose or duplicate it. If you receive this e-mail unintentionally, please inform us immediately by "reply" and then delete it from your system. Although this information has been compiled with great care, neither IMC Financial Markets & Asset Management nor any of its related entities shall accept any responsibility for any errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in this information or for the consequences thereof, nor shall it be bound in any way by the contents of this e-mail or its attachments. In the event of incomplete or incorrect transmission, please return the e-mail to the sender and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Messages and attachments are scanned for all known viruses. Always scan attachments before opening them. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com