On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Bryan Stillwell wrote:

After upgrading one of our clusters from Nautilus 14.2.2 to Nautilus 14.2.5 I'm seeing 100% CPU usage by a single ceph-mgr thread (found using 'top -H'). Attaching to the thread with strace shows a lot of mmap and munmap calls. Here's the distribution after watching it for a few minutes:

48.73% - mmap
49.48% - munmap
1.75% - futex
0.05% - madvise

I've upgraded 3 other clusters so far (120 OSDs, 30 OSDs, 200 OSDs), but this is the only one which has seen the problem (355 OSDs). Perhaps it has something to do with its size?

I was suspecting it might have to do with one of the modules misbehaving, so I disabled all of them:

# ceph mgr module ls | jq -r '.enabled_modules'
[]

But that didn't help (I restarted the mgrs after disabling the modules too).

I also tried setting debug_mgr and debug_mgrc to 20, but nothing popped out at me as being the cause of the problem.

It only seems to affect the active mgr. If I stop the active mgr the problem moves to one of the other mgrs.

Any guesses or tips on what next steps I should take to figure out what's going on?

What are the balancer modes on the affected and unaffected cluster(s)?