Hi Ceph-Users, I have absolutely no idea what is going on on my systems... Hardware: 45 x 4TB Harddisks 2 x 6 Core CPUs 256GB Memory When initializing all disks and join them to the cluster, after approximately 30 OSDs, other osds are crashing. When I try to start them again I see different kinds of errors. For example: Starting Ceph osd.316 on ceph-osd-bs04...already running === osd.317 === Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ceph", line 830, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/ceph", line 773, in main sigdict, inbuf, verbose) File "/usr/bin/ceph", line 420, in new_style_command inbuf=inbuf) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ceph_argparse.py", line 1112, in json_command raise RuntimeError('"{0}": exception {1}'.format(cmd, e)) NameError: global name 'cmd' is not defined Exception thread.error: error("can't start new thread",) in <bound method Rados.__del__ of <rados.Rados object at 0x29ee410>> ignored or: /etc/init.d/ceph: 190: /etc/init.d/ceph: Cannot fork /etc/init.d/ceph: 191: /etc/init.d/ceph: Cannot fork /etc/init.d/ceph: 192: /etc/init.d/ceph: Cannot fork or: /usr/bin/ceph-crush-location: 72: /usr/bin/ceph-crush-location: Cannot fork /usr/bin/ceph-crush-location: 79: /usr/bin/ceph-crush-location: Cannot fork Thread::try_create(): pthread_create failed with error 11common/Thread.cc: In function 'void Thread::create(size_t)' thread 7fcf768c9760 time 2014-09-12 15:00:28.284735 common/Thread.cc: 110: FAILED assert(ret == 0) ceph version 0.80.5 (38b73c67d375a2552d8ed67843c8a65c2c0feba6) 1: /usr/bin/ceph-conf() [0x51de8f] 2: (CephContext::CephContext(unsigned int)+0xb1) [0x520fe1] 3: (common_preinit(CephInitParameters const&, code_environment_t, int)+0x48) [0x52eb78] 4: (global_pre_init(std::vector<char const*, std::allocator<char const*> >*, std::vector<char const*, std::allocator<char const*> >&, unsigned int, code_environment_t, int)+0x8d) [0x518d0d] 5: (main()+0x17a) [0x514f6a] 6: (__libc_start_main()+0xfd) [0x7fcf7522ceed] 7: /usr/bin/ceph-conf() [0x5168d1] NOTE: a copy of the executable, or `objdump -rdS <executable>` is needed to interpret this. terminate called after throwing an instance of 'ceph::FailedAssertion' Aborted (core dumped) /etc/init.d/ceph: 340: /etc/init.d/ceph: Cannot fork /etc/init.d/ceph: 1: /etc/init.d/ceph: Cannot fork Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ceph", line 830, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/ceph", line 590, in main conffile=conffile) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rados.py", line 198, in __init__ librados_path = find_library('rados') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/util.py", line 224, in find_library return _findSoname_ldconfig(name) or _get_soname(_findLib_gcc(name)) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/ctypes/util.py", line 213, in _findSoname_ldconfig f = os.popen('/sbin/ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null') OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory But anyways, when I look at the memory consumption of the system: # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 258450 25841 232609 0 18 15506 -/+ buffers/cache: 10315 248135 Swap: 3811 0 3811 There are more then 230GB of memory available! What is going on there? System: Linux ceph-osd-bs04 3.14-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.12-1~bpo70+1 (2014-07-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux Since this is happening on other Hardware as well, I don't think it's Hardware related. I have no Idea if this is an OS issue (which would be seriously strange) or a ceph issue. Since this is happening only AFTER we upgraded to firefly, I guess it has something to do with ceph. ANY idea on what is going on here would be very appreciated! Regards, Christian