Re: Unexplainable slow request

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On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 20:36:17 -0800 Gregory Farnum wrote:

> They never fixed themselves? 
As I wrote, it took a restart of OSD 8 to resolve this on the next day.

> Did the reported times ever increase?
Indeed, the last before the reboot was:
---
2014-12-07 13:12:42.933396 7fceac82f700  0 log [WRN] : 14 slow requests, 5 included below; oldest blocked for > 64336.578995 secs
---

All IOPS hitting that osd.8 (eventually the other VM did as well during a
log write I suppose) were blocked.

> If not I think that's just a reporting bug which is fixed in an
> unreleased branch, but I'd have to check the tracker to be sure.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Christian Balzer <chibi@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 19:51:00 -0800 Gregory Farnum wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Christian Balzer <chibi@xxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > Debian Jessie cluster, thus kernel 3.16, ceph 0.80.7.
> >> > 3 storage nodes with 8 OSDs (journals on 4 SSDs) each, 3 mons.
> >> > 2 compute nodes, everything connected via Infiniband.
> >> >
> >> > This is pre-production, currently there are only 3 VMs and 2 of them
> >> > were idle at the time. The non-idle one was having 600GB of maildirs
> >> > copied onto it, which stresses things but not Ceph as those millions
> >> > of small files coalesce nicely and result in rather few Ceph ops.
> >> >
> >> > A couple of hours into that copy marathon (the source FS and machine
> >> > are slow and rsync isn't particular speedy with this kind of
> >> > operation either) this happened:
> >> > ---
> >> > 2014-12-06 19:20:57.023974 osd.23 10.0.8.23:6815/3552 77 : [WRN]
> >> > slow request 30 .673939 seconds old, received at 2014-12-06
> >> > 19:20:26.346746: osd_op(client.33776 .0:743596
> >> > rb.0.819b.238e1f29.00000003f52f [set-alloc-hint object_size 4194304
> >> > wr ite_size 4194304,write 1748992~4096] 3.efa97e35 ack+ondisk+write
> >> > e380) v4 curren tly waiting for subops from 4,8 2014-12-06
> >> > 19:20:57.023991 osd.23 10.0.8.23:6815/3552 78 : [WRN] slow request
> >> > 30 .673886 seconds old, received at 2014-12-06 19:20:26.346799:
> >> > osd_op(client.33776 .0:743597 rb.0.819b.238e1f29.00000003f52f
> >> > [set-alloc-hint object_size 4194304 wr ite_size 4194304,write
> >> > 1945600~4096] 3.efa97e35 ack+ondisk+write e380) v4 curren tly
> >> > waiting for subops from 4,8 2014-12-06 19:20:57.323976 osd.1
> >> > 10.0.8.21:6815/4868 123 : [WRN] slow request 30 .910821 seconds old,
> >> > received at 2014-12-06 19:20:26.413051:
> >> > osd_op(client.33776 .0:743604 rb.0.819b.238e1f29.00000003e628
> >> > [set-alloc-hint object_size 4194304 wr ite_size 4194304,write
> >> > 1794048~1835008] 3.5e76b8ba ack+ondisk+write e380) v4 cur rently
> >> > waiting for subops from 8,17 ---
> >> >
> >> > There were a few more later, but they all involved OSD 8 as common
> >> > factor.
> >> >
> >> > Alas there's nothing in the osd-8.log indicating why:
> >> > ---
> >> > 2014-12-06 19:13:13.933636 7fce85552700  0 -- 10.0.8.22:6835/5389 >>
> >> > 10.0.8.6:0/ 716350435 pipe(0x7fcec3c25900 sd=23 :6835 s=0 pgs=0 cs=0
> >> > l=0 c=0x7fcebfad03c0).a ccept peer addr is really
> >> > 10.0.8.6:0/716350435 (socket is 10.0.8.6:50592/0) 2014-12-06
> >> > 19:20:56.595773 7fceac82f700 0 log [WRN] : 3 slow requests, 3
> >> > included below; oldest blocked for > 30.241397 secs 2014-12-06
> >> > 19:20:56.595796 7fceac82f700  0 log [WRN] : slow request 30.241397
> >> > seconds old, received at 2014-12-06 19:20:26.354247:
> >> > osd_sub_op(client.33776.0:743596 3.235
> >> > efa97e35/rb.0.819b.238e1f29.00000003f52f/head//3 [] v 380'3783
> >> > snapset=0=[]:[] snapc=0=[]) v11 currently started 2014-12-06
> >> > 19:20:56.595825 7fceac82f700  0 log [WRN] : slow request 30.240286
> >> > seconds old, received at 2014-12-06 19:20:26.355358:
> >> > osd_sub_op(client.33776.0:743597 3.235
> >> > efa97e35/rb.0.819b.238e1f29.00000003f52f/head//3 [] v 380'3784
> >> > snapset=0=[]:[] snapc=0=[]) v11 currently started 2014-12-06
> >> > 19:20:56.595837 7fceac82f700  0 log [WRN] : slow request 30.177186
> >> > seconds old, received at 2014-12-06 19:20:26.418458:
> >> > osd_sub_op(client.33776.0:743604 3.ba
> >> > 5e76b8ba/rb.0.819b.238e1f29.00000003e628/head//3 [] v 380'6439
> >> > snapset=0=[]:[] snapc=0=[]) v11 currently started ----
> >>
> >> That these are started and nothing else suggests that they're probably
> >> waiting for one of the throttles to let them in, rather than
> >> themselves being particularly slow.
> >>
> >
> > If this was indeed caused by one of the (rather numerous) throttles,
> > wouldn't it be a good idea to log that fact?
> > A slow disk is one thing, Ceph permanently seizing up because something
> > exceeded a threshold sounds noteworthy to me.
> 
> If it permanently seized up then this is not what happened; 

So am I looking at an unknown bug then?

> if the
> reporting just didn't go away then I'm not sure it's appropriate to
> log every time a throttle gets hit (some of them are supposed to or at
> least expected to be, since they keep the journal from running away
> from the backing store).
> 
Fair enough, I'd suppose that anything causing a WRN log entry which in
turn is caused by a throttle triggering should have that root cause
included though.

Christian

> >
> >> >
> >> > The HDDs and SSDs are new, there's nothing in the pertinent logs or
> >> > smart that indicates any problem with that HDD or its journal SSD,
> >> > nor the system in general.
> >> > This problem persisted (and the VM remained stuck) until OSD 8 was
> >> > restarted the next day when I discovered this.
> >> >
> >> > I suppose this is another "this can't/shouldn't happen" case, but
> >> > I'd be delighted about any suggestions as to what happened here,
> >> > potential prevention measures and any insights on how to maybe coax
> >> > more information out of Ceph if this happens again.
> >>
> >> Nah, there are a million reasons stuff can be slow.
> > This wasn't just slow. Those requests never completed even after half a
> > day had passed with the system and disks being basically idle.
> >
> >> It might just be a
> >> transient overload of the disk compared to the others.
> >
> > Transient would be fine (though highly unlikely in this scenario),
> > however it never recovered, see above.
> >
> >
> >> If you see this
> >> again while it's happening I'd check the perfcounters; if you're
> >> keeping historical checks of them go look at the blocked-up times and
> >> see if any of them are at or near their maximum values.
> >> -Gre
> >>
> > Ah, I should have thought of that before re-starting that OSD.
> > dump_historic_ops is at the default values, so that information is
> > long gone.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Christian
> > --
> > Christian Balzer        Network/Systems Engineer
> > chibi@xxxxxxx           Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications
> > http://www.gol.com/
> 


-- 
Christian Balzer        Network/Systems Engineer                
chibi@xxxxxxx   	Global OnLine Japan/Fusion Communications
http://www.gol.com/
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