Re: trimming the MON level db

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On 04/27/2018 08:31 PM, David Turner wrote:
> I'm assuming that the "very bad move" means that you have some PGs not
> in active+clean.  Any non-active+clean PG will prevent your mons from
> being able to compact their db store.  This is by design so that if
> something were to happen where the data on some of the copies of the PG
> were lost and gone forever the mons could do their best to enable the
> cluster to reconstruct the PG knowing when OSDs went down/up, when PGs
> moved to new locations, etc.
> 
> Thankfully there isn't a way around this.  Something you can do is stop
> a mon, move the /var/lib/mon/$(hostname -s)/ folder to a new disk with
> more space, set it to mount in the proper location, and start it back
> up.  You would want to do this for each mon to give them more room for
> the mon store to grow.  Make sure to give the mon plenty of time to get
> back up into the quorum before moving on to the next one.
> 

Indeed. This is a unknown thing with Monitors for a lot of people. I
always suggest installing a >200GB DC-grade SSD in Monitors to make sure
you can make large movements without running into trouble with the MONs.

So yes, move this data to a new disk. Without all PGs active+clean you
can't trim the store.

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:25 AM Luis Periquito <periquito@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:periquito@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     we have a (really) big cluster that's ongoing a very bad move and the
>     monitor database is growing at an alarming rate.
> 
>     The cluster is running jewel (10.2.7) and is there any way to trim the
>     monitor database before it gets HEALTH_OK?
> 
>     I've searched and so far only found people saying not really, but just
>     wanted a final sanity check...
> 
>     thanks,
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