Re: trimming the MON level db

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On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 10:24 AM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> 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.

It's currently on a P3700 400G SSD and almost full (280g). We've been
able to avoid it to stop growing at such a rate as it was before. The
main issue was with an OSD crashing under load making a few others
crash/OoM as well. Setting nodown has been a saver.
>
>> 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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