If your Ceph cluster are running on the latest version of Ceph then the the pg_autoscaler probably is the reason. After the period of time, Ceph will check the cluster status and increase/decrease the number of PG in the cluster if needed. On 5/14/20, 03:37, "Bryan Henderson" <bryanh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I'm surprised I couldn't find this explained anywhere (I did look), but ... What is the pgmap and why does it get updated every few seconds on a tiny cluster that's mostly idle? I do know what a placement group (PG) is and that when documentation talks about placement group maps, it is talking about something else -- mapping of PGs to OSDs by CRUSH and OSD maps. -- Bryan Henderson San Jose, California _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx