Hello, We are currently exploring issue which can be related to Ceph itself or to the XFS - any help is very appreciated. First, the picture: relatively old cluster w/ two years uptime and ten months after fs recreation on every OSD, one of daemons started to flap approximately once per day for couple of weeks, with no external reason (bandwidth/IOPS/host issues). It looks almost the same every time - OSD suddenly stop serving requests for a short period, gets kicked out by peers report, then returns in a couple of seconds. Of course, small but sensitive amount of requests are delayed by 15-30 seconds twice, which is bad for us. The only thing which correlates with this kick is a peak of I/O, not too large, even not consuming all underlying disk utilization, but alone in the cluster and clearly visible. Also there are at least two occasions *without* correlated iowait peak. I have two versions - we`re touching some sector on disk which is about to be marked as dead but not displayed in SMART statistics or (I believe so) some kind of XFS fatigue, which can be more likely in this case, since near-bad sector should be touched more frequently and related impact could leave traces in dmesg/SMART from my experience. I would like to ask if anyone has a simular experience before or can suggest to poke existing file system in some way. If no suggestion appear, I`ll probably reformat disk and, if problem will remain after refill, replace it, but I think less destructive actions can be done before. XFS is running on 3.10 with almost default create and mount options, ceph version is the latest cuttlefish (this rack should be upgraded, I know).
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