I hope someone can help us with a MDS caching problem. Ceph version 18.2.4 with cephadm container deployment. Question 1: For me it's not clear how much cache/memory you should allocate for the MDS. Is this based on the number of open files, caps or something else? Question 2/Problem: At the moment we have MDS nodes with 32 GB of memory and a configured cache limit of 20 GB. There are 4 MDS nodes: 2 active and 2 in standby-replay mode (with max_mds set at 2 of course). We pinned top directories to specific ranks, so the balancer isn't used. The memory usage is for the most part increasing, sometimes a little dip with couple hundred MB's freed. After all the memory is consumed, SWAP gets used. This results in a couple of hundred MB's of freed memory, but not much. When eventually the SWAP runs out and the memory is full, the MDS service stops and the cluster logs show: 1. no beacon from mds 2. marking mds up:active laggy 3. replacing mds 4. MDS daemon <daemon> is removed because it is dead or otherwise unavailable For example: we have the top folder app2 and app4 which is pinnend to rank 1. Folder app2 is always accessed by 4 clients (application servers), the same happens with folder app4. Folder app2 is 3 times larger than folder app4 (last time I checked, don't wanna do a du at the moment). After a couple of hours the memory usage of the MDS server stays around 18% (Grafana shows a flatline for 7 hours). At night the 9the client connects and makes first a backup with rsync of the latest snapshot folder of app2 and afterwards the same happens for folder app4 with a pause for 5 minutes. When the backup starts, the memory increases to 70% and stays at 70% after the backup of app2 is completed. 5 minutes later the memory starts increases again with the start of the backup of folder app4. When the backup is done, it's at 78% and stays there for the rest of the day. Why isn't the memory usage decreasing after the rsync is completed? Is there a memory leak with the MDS service? Ps. I have some small log files/Grafana screenshots, not sure how to share. Kind regards, Sake