If you are concerned about *client io performance* during recovery, use these settings.. osd recovery max active = 1 osd max backfills = 1 osd recovery threads = 1 osd recovery op priority = 1 If you are concerned about *recovery performance*, you may want to bump this up, but I doubt it will help much from default settings.. Thanks & Regards Somnath -----Original Message----- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J-P Methot Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 12:17 PM To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxx Subject: Bad performances in recovery Hi, Our setup is currently comprised of 5 OSD nodes with 12 OSD each, for a total of 60 OSDs. All of these are SSDs with 4 SSD journals on each. The ceph version is hammer v0.94.1 . There is a performance overhead because we're using SSDs (I've heard it gets better in infernalis, but we're not upgrading just yet) but we can reach numbers that I would consider "alright". Now, the issue is, when the cluster goes into recovery it's very fast at first, but then slows down to ridiculous levels as it moves forward. You can go from 7% to 2% to recover in ten minutes, but it may take 2 hours to recover the last 2%. While this happens, the attached openstack setup becomes incredibly slow, even though there is only a small fraction of objects still recovering (less than 1%). The settings that may affect recovery speed are very low, as they are by default, yet they still affect client io speed way more than it should. Why would ceph recovery become so slow as it progress and affect client io even though it's recovering at a snail's pace? And by a snail's pace, I mean a few kb/second on 10gbps uplinks. -- ====================== Jean-Philippe Méthot Administrateur système / System administrator GloboTech Communications Phone: 1-514-907-0050 Toll Free: 1-(888)-GTCOMM1 Fax: 1-(514)-907-0750 jpmethot@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.gtcomm.net _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com ________________________________ PLEASE NOTE: The information contained in this electronic mail message is intended only for the use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by telephone or e-mail (as shown above) immediately and destroy any and all copies of this message in your possession (whether hard copies or electronically stored copies). _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com