Re: btrfs constant background write activity even at idle

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On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> Hi Sage,
> 
> Am 04.12.2013 17:13, schrieb Sage Weil:
> > Hi James,
> > 
> > Can you generate an OSD log with 'debug filestore = 20' for an idle period?
> 
> i had reported something very similiar with no result to zendesk (#702).

Were you also seeing the ceph-osd process show up in iotop while idle?  
That's the bit that concerns me.

sage

> 
> Stefan
> 
> > Thanks!
> > sage
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >     I have been testing osd on btrfs, and the first thing I notice is that
> > there is constant write activity when idle.
> > 
> >     The write activity hovers between 5Mbytes/second and 30Mbytes/second,
> > and averages around 9Mbytes/second (as determined by iostat -x 30). On
> > average, iostat is showing around 90 w/s, and 25% util.
> > 
> >     There were two OSD's on this server running btrfs and both were behaving
> > like this. I changed one back to xfs last night and it's not showing any
> > write activity at idle now.
> > 
> >     There is no matching write activity on the journal device, but the high
> > writes stop when I kill the OSD process.
> > 
> >     kworker, ceph-osd, and btrfs-cleaner processes feature highly in iotop
> > 
> >     Is this normal? And is it a problem, or just btrfs doing background
> > writes for some reason?
> > 
> >     I'm running dumpling on Debian, fwiw.
> > 
> >     Thanks
> > 
> >     James
> > 
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