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Hi,
I guess this isn't strictly about Ceph, but I feel like other folks here must have run into the same issues. I am trying to keep my thinly provisioned RBD volumes thin. I use virtio-scsi to attach the RBD volumes to my VMs with the "discard=unmap" option. The RBD is formatted as XFS and some of them can be quite large (16TB+). I have a cron job that runs "fstrim" commands twice a week in the evenings. The issue is that I see massive I/O stalls on the VM during the fstrim. To the point where I am getting kernel panics from hung tasks and other timeouts. I have tried a number of things to lessen the impact: - Switching from deadline to CFQ (initially I thought this helped, but now I am not convinced) - Running fstrim with "ionice -c idle" (this doesn't seem to make a difference) - Chunking the fstrim with the offset/length options (helps reduce worst case, but I can't trim less than 1TB at a time and that can still cause a pause for several minutes) Is there anything else I can do to avoid this issue? Thanks, Brendan |
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