Re: CephFS constant high write I/O to the metadata pool

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 3:06 AM Olli Rajala <olli.rajala@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Venky,
>
> I have indeed observed the output of the different sections of perf dump like so:
> watch -n 1 ceph tell mds.`hostname` perf dump objecter
> watch -n 1 ceph tell mds.`hostname` perf dump mds_cache
> ...etc...
>
> ...but without any proper understanding of what is a normal rate for some number to go up it's really difficult to make anything from that.
>
> btw - is there some convenient way to capture this kind of temporal output for others to view. Sure, I could just dump once a second to a file or sequential files but is there some tool or convention that is easy to look at and analyze?

Not really - you'd have to do it yourself.

>
> Tnx,
> ---------------------------
> Olli Rajala - Lead TD
> Anima Vitae Ltd.
> www.anima.fi
> ---------------------------
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 8:18 AM Venky Shankar <vshankar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Olli,
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 1:08 PM Olli Rajala <olli.rajala@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Patrick,
>> >
>> > With "objecter_ops" did you mean "ceph tell mds.pve-core-1 ops" and/or
>> > "ceph tell mds.pve-core-1 objecter_requests"? Both these show very few
>> > requests/ops - many times just returning empty lists. I'm pretty sure that
>> > this I/O isn't generated by any clients - I've earlier tried to isolate
>> > this by shutting down all cephfs clients and this didn't have any
>> > noticeable effect.
>> >
>> > I tried to watch what is going on with that "perf dump" but to be honest
>> > all I can see is some numbers going up in the different sections :)
>> > ...don't have a clue what to focus on and how to interpret that.
>> >
>> > Here's a perf dump if you or anyone could make something out of that:
>> > https://gist.github.com/olliRJL/43c10173aafd82be22c080a9cd28e673
>>
>> You'd need to capture this over a period of time to see what ops might
>> be going through and what the mds is doing.
>>
>> >
>> > Tnx!
>> > o.
>> >
>> > ---------------------------
>> > Olli Rajala - Lead TD
>> > Anima Vitae Ltd.
>> > www.anima.fi
>> > ---------------------------
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:32 PM Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hello Olli,
>> > >
>> > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 5:01 AM Olli Rajala <olli.rajala@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Hi,
>> > > >
>> > > > I'm seeing constant 25-50MB/s writes to the metadata pool even when all
>> > > > clients and the cluster is idling and in clean state. This surely can't
>> > > be
>> > > > normal?
>> > > >
>> > > > There's no apparent issues with the performance of the cluster but this
>> > > > write rate seems excessive and I don't know where to look for the
>> > > culprit.
>> > > >
>> > > > The setup is Ceph 16.2.9 running in hyperconverged 3 node core cluster
>> > > and
>> > > > 6 hdd osd nodes.
>> > > >
>> > > > Here's typical status when pretty much all clients are idling. Most of
>> > > that
>> > > > write bandwidth and maybe fifth of the write iops is hitting the
>> > > > metadata pool.
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > > root@pve-core-1:~# ceph -s
>> > > >   cluster:
>> > > >     id:     2088b4b1-8de1-44d4-956e-aa3d3afff77f
>> > > >     health: HEALTH_OK
>> > > >
>> > > >   services:
>> > > >     mon: 3 daemons, quorum pve-core-1,pve-core-2,pve-core-3 (age 2w)
>> > > >     mgr: pve-core-1(active, since 4w), standbys: pve-core-2, pve-core-3
>> > > >     mds: 1/1 daemons up, 2 standby
>> > > >     osd: 48 osds: 48 up (since 5h), 48 in (since 4M)
>> > > >
>> > > >   data:
>> > > >     volumes: 1/1 healthy
>> > > >     pools:   10 pools, 625 pgs
>> > > >     objects: 70.06M objects, 46 TiB
>> > > >     usage:   95 TiB used, 182 TiB / 278 TiB avail
>> > > >     pgs:     625 active+clean
>> > > >
>> > > >   io:
>> > > >     client:   45 KiB/s rd, 38 MiB/s wr, 6 op/s rd, 287 op/s wr
>> > > >
>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > >
>> > > > Here's some daemonperf dump:
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > > root@pve-core-1:~# ceph daemonperf mds.`hostname -s`
>> > > >
>> > > ----------------------------------------mds-----------------------------------------
>> > > > --mds_cache--- ------mds_log------ -mds_mem- -------mds_server-------
>> > > mds_
>> > > > -----objecter------ purg
>> > > > req  rlat fwd  inos caps exi  imi  hifc crev cgra ctru cfsa cfa  hcc
>> > > hccd
>> > > > hccr prcr|stry recy recd|subm evts segs repl|ino  dn  |hcr  hcs  hsr  cre
>> > > >  cat |sess|actv rd   wr   rdwr|purg|
>> > > >  40    0    0  767k  78k   0    0    0    1    6    1    0    0    5    5
>> > > >  3    7 |1.1k   0    0 | 17  3.7k 134    0 |767k 767k| 40    5    0    0
>> > > >  0 |110 |  4    2   21    0 |  2
>> > > >  57    2    0  767k  78k   0    0    0    3   16    3    0    0   11   11
>> > > >  0   17 |1.1k   0    0 | 45  3.7k 137    0 |767k 767k| 57    8    0    0
>> > > >  0 |110 |  0    2   28    0 |  4
>> > > >  57    4    0  767k  78k   0    0    0    4   34    4    0    0   34   33
>> > > >  2   26 |1.0k   0    0 |134  3.9k 139    0 |767k 767k| 57   13    0    0
>> > > >  0 |110 |  0    2  112    0 | 19
>> > > >  67    3    0  767k  78k   0    0    0    6   32    6    0    0   22   22
>> > > >  0   32 |1.1k   0    0 | 78  3.9k 141    0 |767k 768k| 67    4    0    0
>> > > >  0 |110 |  0    2   56    0 |  2
>> > > >
>> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > > > Any ideas where to look at?
>> > >
>> > > Check the perf dump output of the mds:
>> > >
>> > > ceph tell mds.<fs_name>:0 perf dump
>> > >
>> > > over a period of time to identify what's going on. You can also look
>> > > at the objecter_ops (another tell command) for the MDS.
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D.
>> > > He / Him / His
>> > > Principal Software Engineer
>> > > Red Hat, Inc.
>> > > GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D
>> > >
>> > >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx
>> > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Venky
>>


-- 
Cheers,
Venky

_______________________________________________
ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx
To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx



[Index of Archives]     [Information on CEPH]     [Linux Filesystem Development]     [Ceph Development]     [Ceph Large]     [Ceph Dev]     [Linux USB Development]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [xfs]


  Powered by Linux