Hello all, I installed OpenStack with Glance + Ceph OSD with replication factor 2 and now I can see the write operations are extremly slow. For example, I can see only 0.04 MB/s write speed when I run rados bench with 512b blocks: rados bench -p test 60 write --no-cleanup -t 1 -b 512 Maintaining 1 concurrent writes of 512 bytes for up to 60 seconds or 0 objects Object prefix: benchmark_data_node-17.domain.tld_15862 sec Cur ops started finished avg MB/s cur MB/s last lat avg lat 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 1 83 82 0.0400341 0.0400391 0.008465 0.0120985 2 1 169 168 0.0410111 0.0419922 0.080433 0.0118995 3 1 240 239 0.0388959 0.034668 0.008052 0.0125385 4 1 356 355 0.0433309 0.0566406 0.00837 0.0112662 5 1 472 471 0.0459919 0.0566406 0.008343 0.0106034 6 1 550 549 0.0446735 0.0380859 0.036639 0.0108791 7 1 581 580 0.0404538 0.0151367 0.008614 0.0120654 My test environment configuration: Hardware servers with 1Gb network interfaces, 64Gb RAM and 16 CPU cores per node, HDDs WDC WD5003ABYX-01WERA0. OpenStack with 1 controller, 1 compute and 2 ceph nodes (ceph on separate nodes). CentOS 6.5, kernel 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64. I tested several config options for optimizations, like in /etc/ceph/ceph.conf: [default] ... osd_pool_default_pg_num = 1024 osd_pool_default_pgp_num = 1024 osd_pool_default_flag_hashpspool = true ... [osd] osd recovery max active = 1 osd max backfills = 1 filestore max sync interval = 30 filestore min sync interval = 29 filestore flusher = false filestore queue max ops = 10000 filestore op threads = 16 osd op threads = 16 ... [client] rbd_cache = true rbd_cache_writethrough_until_flush = true and in /etc/cinder/cinder.conf: [DEFAULT] volume_tmp_dir=/tmp but in the result performance was increased only on ~30 % and it not looks like huge success. Non-default mount options and TCP optimization increase the speed in about 1%: [root at node-17 ~]# mount | grep ceph /dev/sda4 on /var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-0 type xfs (rw,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,user_xattr,data=writeback,barrier=0) [root at node-17 ~]# cat /etc/sysctl.conf net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 net.core.wmem_max = 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216 net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 1 Do we have other ways to significantly improve CEPH storage performance? Any feedback and comments are welcome! Thank you! -- Timur, QA Engineer OpenStack Projects Mirantis Inc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/attachments/20140927/87ca2d5f/attachment.htm>