In my case we have 72 OSDs. We are experiencing some performance issues. We believe that the reason is the scrubbing, so we want to turn scrubbing off for a few days. Given the default parameters of 1 day for scrub and 7 days for deep scrub. We turn off scrub for let's say 6 days, then when we turn it on will it try to do all the scrubbing that were supposed to be done in those days when it was turned off? Kind regards, Laszlo On 08.03.2017 12:51, Peter Maloney wrote: > It will stick to the config. If you limit the amount of work scrub does > at a time, then you can let it do whatever it wants without issues > (except 10.2.x which had a bug fixed in 10.2.4, but skip to 10.2.5 to > fix a regression). > > For example: >> # less scrub work at a time, with delay >> osd scrub chunk min = 1 # default 5 >> osd scrub chunk max = 1 # default 25 >> osd scrub sleep = 0.5 # default 0 >> >> # lower scrub priority (possibly no effect since Jewel) >> osd disk thread ioprio class = idle >> osd disk thread ioprio priority = 3 > > And this is already default: >> osd deep scrub stride = 524288 # 512 KiB >> osd max scrubs = 1 > > And I set this, but not recommending it. The reason I post it here is > just to show that the above is slowed down enough that everything is > scrubbed within this long scrub interval, but might need adjustment for > a more normal setting here: >> # 60 days ... default is 7 days >> osd deep scrub interval = 5259488 > > And more inline answers below > > > On 03/08/17 10:46, Laszlo Budai wrote: >> Hello, >> >> is there any risk related to cluster overload when the scrub is re >> enabled after a certain amount of time being disabled? >> >> I am thinking of the following scenario: >> 1. scrub/deep scrub are disabled. >> 2. after a while (few days) we re enable them. How will the cluster >> perform? > should be as normal during normal scrubbing... just no/short breaks in > between. (use osd scrub sleep for this) >> Will it run all the scrub jobs that were supposed to be running in the >> meantime, or it will just start scheduling scrub jobs according to the >> scrub related parameters? > It will run them 1 at a time, or however you have configured it, until > all are within the target time range. Why shouldn't it obey its config? > > And maybe as a side effect, the next time they are scrubbed will also be > timed closely together too. >> >> >> Can you point me to some documentation about this topic? > Nothing interesting with descriptions, just the reference manual for the > options listed above. Someone on IRC gave me the above options and I > tested and fiddled with them to see how ceph behaves. >> >> Thank you, >> Laszlo >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users at lists.ceph.com >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > >