On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Kenneth Waegeman <kenneth.waegeman at ugent.be> wrote: > We are also running a full backup sync to cephfs, using multiple distributed > rsync streams (with zkrsync), and also ran in this issue today on Hammer > 0.94.1 . > After setting the beacon higer, and eventually clearing the journal, it > stabilized again. > > We were using ceph-fuse to mount the cephfs, not the ceph kernel client. What's your MDS cache size set to? Did you have any warnings in the ceph log about clients not releasing caps? I think you could hit this in ceph-fuse as well on hammer, although we just merged in a fix: https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/4653 -Greg