Anthony D'Atri (anthony.datri) writes:
During heavy recovery or backfill, including healing from failures, balancing, adding/removing drives, much more will be used.
Convention wisdom has been to not let that traffic DoS clients, or clients to DoS heartbeats.
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If your public network is saturated, that actually is a problem, last thing you want is to add recovery traffic, or to slow down heartbeats. For most people, it isn’t saturated.
See Frank Schilder's post about a meltdown which he believes could have been caused by beacon/hearbeat being drowned out by other recovery/IO trafic, not at the network level, but at the processing level on the OSDs. If indeed there are cases where the OSDs are too busy to send (or process) heartbeat/beacon messaging, it wouldn't help to have a separate network ? Cheers, Phil