Re: [ceph-users] what are these files for mon?

2014-09-16 Thread Florian Haas
Hi Greg, just picked up this one from the archive while researching a different issue and thought I'd follow up. On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Gregory Farnum g...@inktank.com wrote: The sst files are files used by leveldb to store its data; you cannot remove them. Are you running on a very

Re: [ceph-users] what are these files for mon?

2014-09-16 Thread Gregory Farnum
I don't really know; Joao has handled all these cases. I *think* they've been tied to a few bad versions of LevelDB, but I'm not certain. (There were a number of discussions about it on the public mailing lists.) -Greg On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, Florian Haas flor...@hastexo.com wrote: Hi

Re: [ceph-users] what are these files for mon?

2014-09-16 Thread Joao Eduardo Luis
On 09/16/2014 04:35 PM, Gregory Farnum wrote: I don't really know; Joao has handled all these cases. I *think* they've been tied to a few bad versions of LevelDB, but I'm not certain. (There were a number of discussions about it on the public mailing lists.) -Greg On Tuesday, September 16,

Re: [ceph-users] what are these files for mon?

2014-09-16 Thread Florian Haas
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Joao Eduardo Luis joao.l...@inktank.com wrote: Forcing the monitor to compact on start and restarting the mon is the current workaround for overgrown ssts. This happens on a regular basis with some clusters and I've not been able to track down the source. It

Re: [ceph-users] what are these files for mon?

2014-08-19 Thread Gregory Farnum
The sst files are files used by leveldb to store its data; you cannot remove them. Are you running on a very small VM? How much space are the files taking up in aggregate? Speaking generally, I think you should see something less than a GB worth of data there, but some versions of leveldb under

[ceph-users] what are these files for mon?

2014-08-05 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hello, I’ve been testing cephfs with 1 monitor. My /var partition keeps on filling up so that the mon process just die because of insufficient space. I drilled down on /var partition that below mon path is taking most of the space with *.sst files. I just curious what these files are and can