Hi all, we seem to have a serious issue with our file system, ceph version is pacific latest. After a large cleanup operation we had an MDS rank with 100Mio stray entries (yes, one hundred million). Today we restarted this daemon, which cleans up the stray entries. It seems that this leads to a restart loop due to OOM. The rank becomes active and then starts pulling in DNS and INOS entries until all memory is exhausted. I have no idea if there is at least progress removing the stray items or if it starts from scratch every time. If it needs to pull as many DNS/INOS into cache as there are stray items, we don't have a server at hand with enough RAM. Q1: Is the MDS at least making progress in every restart iteration? Q2: If not, how do we get this rank up again? Q3: If we can't get this rank up soon, can we at least move directories away from this rank by pinning it to another rank? Currently, the rank in question reports .mds_cache.num_strays=0 in perf dump. ================= Frank Schilder AIT Risø Campus Bygning 109, rum S14