Hi, I'm trying to find out why ceph-fuse client(s) are slow. Luminous 12.2.7 Ceph cluster, Mimic 13.2.1 ceph-fuse client. Ubuntu xenial, 4.13.0-38-generic kernel. Test case: 25 curl requests directed at a single threaded apache process (apache2 -X). When the requests are handled by ceph-kernel client it takes about 1.5 seconds for the first "GET /" (all fs /inode dentrie caches dropped before hand). Subsequent requests only take ~ 0.4 seconds. So fs caches seem to do their job. With ceph-fuse it's a bit different. The first and subsequent requests ("GET /") will take around 4-5 seconds every single time. As if the ceph-fuse / vfs cache does not work. ceph daemon client.id dump_cache shows that all dentries and inodes are in the cache ~ 589 of them. Relevant part of one of them: "caps": [ { "mds": 0, "auth": 1, "mds": 0, "ino": "0x10000096a6a", "cap_id": 50538956, "issued": "pAsLsXsFscr", "wanted": "-", "seq": 1, "issue_seq": 1, "mseq": 0, "gen": 0 } ], "auth_cap": 0, "dirty_caps": "-", "shared_gen": 1, "cache_gen": 1, "hold_caps_until": "0.000000", Not sure what the "issued" caps indicate. This client is currently the only client for this directory, so cache should not be invalidated. On the MDS side I hardly see any request from this client (I checked "dump_ops_in_flight" every second). So, I guess they should come from the cache. But why does it take so long? I have run ceph-fuse in debug mode (--debug-client=20) but this of course results in a lot of output, and I'm not sure what to look for. Watching "mds_requests" on the client every second does not show any request. I know the performance of ceph kernel client is (much) better than ceph-fuse, but does this also apply to objects in cache? Thanks for any hints. Gr. Stefan P.s. ceph-fuse luminous client 12.2.7 shows same result. the only active MDS server has 256 GB cache and has hardly any load. So most inodes / dentries should be cached there also. -- | BIT BV http://www.bit.nl/ Kamer van Koophandel 09090351 | GPG: 0xD14839C6 +31 318 648 688 / info@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com