We have terrible IO performance when multiple VMs do some file IO. Mainly do 
some java compilation on that servers. If we have 2 parallel jobs everything is 
fine, but having 10 jobs we see the warning "HEALTH_WARN X requests are blocked 
> 32 sec; Y osds have slow requests". I have two enterprise SSDs which gained 
good results in ceph tested with fio. They are too small to have a separate 
"ssd_vms" pool and advertise it in openstack as a separate storage backend

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Von: Wido den Hollander [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Montag, 16. September 2019 11:52
An: Eikermann, Robert <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [ceph-users] Activate Cache Tier on Running Pools



On 9/16/19 11:36 AM, Eikermann, Robert wrote:
Hi,

I'm using Ceph in combination with Openstack. For the "VMs" Pool I'd like to 
enable writeback caching tier, like described here: 
https://docs.ceph.com/docs/luminous/rados/operations/cache-tiering/ .


Can you explain why? The cache tiering has some serious flaws and can even 
decrease performance instead of improve it.

What are you trying to solve?

Wido
Should it be possible to do that on a running pool? I tried to do so and 
immediately all VMs (Linux Ubuntu OS) running on Ceph disks got readonly 
filesystems. No errors were shown in ceph (but also no traffic arrived after 
enabling the cache tier). Removing the cache tier , rebooting the VMs and doing 
a filesystemcheck repaired everything.

Best
Robert




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