On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 1:25 AM Samy Ascha <samy(a)xel.nl> wrote:
Hi!
I've been running CephFS for a while now and ever since setting it up, I've seen
unexpectedly large write i/o on the CephFS metadata pool.
The filesystem is otherwise stable and I'm seeing no usage issues.
I'm in a read-intensive environment, from the clients' perspective and throughput
for the metadata pool is consistently larger than that of the data pool.
For example:
# ceph osd pool stats
pool cephfs_data id 1
client io 7.6 MiB/s rd, 19 KiB/s wr, 404 op/s rd, 1 op/s wr
pool cephfs_metadata id 2
client io 338 KiB/s rd, 43 MiB/s wr, 84 op/s rd, 26 op/s wr
I realise, of course, that this is a momentary display of statistics, but I see this
unbalanced r/w activity consistently when monitoring it live.
I would like some insight into what may be causing this large imbalance in r/w,
especially since I'm in a read-intensive (web hosting) environment.
The MDS is still writing its journal and updating the "open file
table". The MDS needs to record certain information about the state of
its cache and the state issued to clients. Even if the clients aren't
changing anything. (This is workload dependent but will be most
obvious when clients are opening files _not_ in cache already.)
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