Quoting Nathan Fish (lordcirth@xxxxxxxxx): > MDS CPU load is proportional to metadata ops/second. MDS RAM cache is > proportional to # of files (including directories) in the working set. > Metadata pool size is proportional to total # of files, plus > everything in the RAM cache. I have seen that the metadata pool can > balloon 8x between being idle, and having every inode open by a > client. > The main thing I'd recommend is getting SSD OSDs to dedicate to the > metadata pools, and SSDs for the HDD OSD's DB/WAL. NVMe if you can. If > you put that much metadata on only HDDs, it's going to be slow. Only SSD for OSD data pool and NVMe for metadata pool, so that should be fine. Besides the initial loading of that many files / directories this workload shouldn't be any problem. Thanks for your feedback. Gr. Stefan -- | BIT BV https://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