Re: MDS troubleshooting documentation: ceph daemon mds.<name> dump cache

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 5:02 AM Stefan Kooman <stefan@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> We had some stuck ops on our MDS. In order to figure out why, we looked
> up the documention. The first thing it mentions is the following:
>
> ceph daemon mds.<name> dump cache /tmp/dump.txt
>
> Our MDS had 170 GB in cache at that moment.
>
> Turns out that is a sure way to get your active MDS replaced by a standby.
>
> Is this supposed to work on MDS with large cache size? If not, than a
> big warning sign to prohibit running this on MDSes with large caches
> would be appropriate.
>
> Gr. Stefan
>
> P.s. I think our only option was to get the active restarted at that
> point, but still.

Yes, there should be a note in the docs about that. It seems a new PR
is up to respond to this issue:
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/36823


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