Re: How to reduce HDD OSD flapping due to rocksdb compacting event?

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Hi Charles,


Basically the goal is to reduce write-amplification as much as possible.  The deeper that the rocksdb hierarchy gets, the worse the write-amplifcation for compaction is going to be.  If you look at the OSD logs you'll see the write-amp factors for compaction in the rocksdb compaction summary sections that periodically pop up. There's a couple of things we are trying to see if we can improve things on our end:


1) Adam has been working on experimenting with sharding data across multiple column families.  The idea here is that it might be better to hav multiple L0 and L1 levels rather than L0, L1, L2 and L3.  I'm not sure if this will pan out of not, but that was one of the goals behind trying this.


2) Toshiba recently released trocksdb which could have a really big impact on compaction write amplification:


Code: https://github.com/ToshibaMemoryAmerica/trocksdb/tree/TRocksRel

Wiki: https://github.com/ToshibaMemoryAmerica/trocksdb/wiki


I recently took a look to see if our key/value size distribution would work well with the approach that trocksdb is taking to reduce write-amplification:


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fNFI8U-JRkU5uaRJzgg5rNxqhgRJFlDB4TsTAVsuYkk/edit?usp=sharing


The good news is that it sounds like the "Trocks Ratio" for the data we put in rocksdb is sufficiently high that we'd see some benefit since it should greatly reduce write-amplification during compaction for data (but not keys). This doesn't help your immediate problem, but I wanted you to know that you aren't the only one and we are thinking about ways to reduce the compaction impact.


Mark


On 4/10/19 2:07 AM, Charles Alva wrote:
Hi Ceph Users,

Is there a way around to minimize rocksdb compacting event so that it won't use all the spinning disk IO utilization and avoid it being marked as down due to fail to send heartbeat to others?

Right now we have frequent high IO disk utilization for every 20-25 minutes where the rocksdb reaches level 4 with 67GB data to compact.


Kind regards,

Charles Alva
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