I continued looking into the issue and have no idea what hinders the performance yet. However: 1. A client operating with kernel 5.3.0-42 (ubuntu 18.04) has no such problems. I delete a directory with hashed subdirs (00 - ff) and total space taken by files ~707MB spread across those 256 in 3.25 s. 2. A client operating with kernel 5.8.0-53 (ubuntu 20.04) processes a similar directory with less space taken ~ 530 MB spread across 256 subdirs in 11.2 s. 3. Yet another client with kernel 5.4.156 has similar latency removing directories as in line 2. In all scenarios, mounts are set with the same options, i.e. noatime,secret-file,acl. Client 1 has luminous, client 2 has octopus, client 3 has nautilus. While they are all on the same LAN, ceph -s on 2 and 3 returns in ~ 800 ms and on client in ~300 ms. Any ideas are appreciated, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 8:44 PM Sasha Litvak <alexander.v.litvak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The metadata pool is on the same type of drives as other pools; every node > uses SATA SSDs. They are all read / write mix DC types. Intel and Seagate. > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 8:02 PM Anthony D'Atri <anthony.datri@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> MDS RAM cache vs going to the metadata pool? What type of drives is your >> metadata pool on? >> >> > On Nov 12, 2021, at 5:30 PM, Sasha Litvak <alexander.v.litvak@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> > >> > I am running Pacific 16.2.4 cluster and recently noticed that rm -rf >> > <dir-name> visibly hangs on the old directories. Cluster is healthy, >> has a >> > light load, and any newly created directories deleted immediately (well >> rm >> > returns command prompt immediately). The directories in question have >> 10 - >> > 20 small text files so nothing should be slow when removing them. >> > >> > I wonder if someone can please give me a hint on where to start >> > troubleshooting as I see no "big bad bear" yet. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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