Thank you Dan! I will definitely disable autoscaler on the rest of our pools. I can't get the PG numbers today, but I will try to get them tomorrow. We definitely want to get this under control. Thank you, Ray -----Original Message----- From: Dan van der Ster <dvanders@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 2:46 PM To: Ray Cunningham <ray.cunningham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: ceph-users@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: Stop Rebalancing Hi Ray, Disabling the autoscaler on all pools is probably a good idea. At least until https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/53729 is fixed. (You are likely not susceptible to that -- but better safe than sorry). To pause the ongoing PG merges, you can indeed set the pg_num to the current value. This will allow the ongoing merge complete and prevent further merges from starting.