Hi there,

I've recently been playing with Ceph on an evaluation basis, and found
that I was able to fairly reliably induce an OOM kill on my the ceph
client machine by using FFSB with the following configuration file (see
attached, below).

I am using Ceph v0.21.3 plus a few commits that were on the testing
branch as of late September (commit ID 569d96b).  The Ceph cluster
contains 10 commodity servers with 5 disks configured for Ceph object
storage on each server (plus a separate spindle for the journal files),
so there are 5 instances of cosd on each OSD server.  The disks are
formatted using ext4 in no-journal mode.  I am using 3 servers for the
MDS and montioring daemons, with the MDS and monitoring daemons
colocated these 3 servers.  The machines all have gigabit ethernet
cards.

I've been running the client on a separate machine, and this is the
machine which has been dying with an OOM.

Any help, suggestions, or "hey stupid!  You screwed up XXXX in your
ceph.conf file" would be gratefully accepted.

Thanks,

                                     - Ted

P.S.  In case people are curious, here are the results of the "boxacle"
(http://btrfs.boxacle.net) FFSB workloads that I ran.  The results are
fairly stable, except very often the 8 thread random_write workload is a
little hard to reproduce because it very often OOM's.  I've never gotten
a 32 thread random_write workload measurement, since it very reliably
OOM's on my client machine.  

Do these results look reasonable to you?  I confess I'm a little
disappointed with the sequential and random read numbers in particular.
And given 10 servers and fifty spindles, even the large_file_create
numbers seems surprising slow.

(Also, given the we are using gigabit ethernet in this evaluation
cluster, the 1GB/sec seems ridiculously high, which suggests to me that
the fsync request wasn't honored -- FFSB includes the fsync time when
calculating write bandwidth -- and it may explain why we are OOM'ing in
the random_write workload.)

                    1 thread           8 threads            32 threads 
large_file_create   101 MB/sec         102 MB/sec           101 MB/sec 
sequential_reads     35 MB/sec         113 MB/sec           114 MB/sec 
random_reads          1.48 MB/sec        5.44 MB/sec        11.7 MB/sec 
random_writes      923 MB/sec           1.09 GB/sec             (*) 

For comparison, here are the FFSB numbers on a single local ext4 disk
with no journal:

                    1 thread           8 threads            32 threads 
large_file_create   75.5 MB/sec        72.2 MB/sec          74.2 MB/sec
sequential_reads    77.2 MB/sec        69.2 MB/sec          70.3 MB/sec
random_reads        734 K/sec          537 K/sec            537 K/sec
random_writes       44.5 MB/sec        41.5 MB/sec          41.6 MB/sec

It's very possible that I may have done something wrong, so I've
enclosed the ceph.conf file I used for doing this test run....  please
let me know if there's something I've screwed up.

---------------------------- random_write.32.ffsb
# Large file random writes.
# 1024 files, 100MB per file.

time=300  # 5 min
alignio=1

[filesystem0]
        location=/mnt/ffsb1
        num_files=1024
        min_filesize=104857600  # 100 MB
        max_filesize=104857600
        reuse=1
[end0]

[threadgroup0]
        num_threads=32

        write_random=1
        write_weight=1

        write_size=5242880  # 5 MB
        write_blocksize=4096

        [stats]
                enable_stats=1
                enable_range=1

                msec_range    0.00      0.01
                msec_range    0.01      0.02
                msec_range    0.02      0.05
                msec_range    0.05      0.10
                msec_range    0.10      0.20
                msec_range    0.20      0.50
                msec_range    0.50      1.00
                msec_range    1.00      2.00
                msec_range    2.00      5.00
                msec_range    5.00     10.00
                msec_range   10.00     20.00
                msec_range   20.00     50.00
                msec_range   50.00    100.00
                msec_range  100.00    200.00
                msec_range  200.00    500.00
                msec_range  500.00   1000.00
                msec_range 1000.00   2000.00
                msec_range 2000.00   5000.00
                msec_range 5000.00  10000.00
        [end]
[end0]
------------------------------------------------ My ceph.conf file

;
; This is the test ceph configuration file
;
; [tytso:20101007.0813EDT]
;
; This file defines cluster membership, the various locations
; that Ceph stores data, and any other runtime options.
;
; If a 'host' is defined for a daemon, the start/stop script will
; verify that it matches the hostname (or else ignore it).  If it is
; not defined, it is assumed that the daemon is intended to start on
; the current host (e.g., in a setup with a startup.conf on each
; node).

; global
[global]
        user = root
        pid file = /disk/sda3/tmp/ceph/$name.pid
        logger dir = /disk/sda3/tmp/ceph
        log dir = /disk/sda3/tmp/ceph
        chdir = /disk/sda3

; monitors
;  You need at least one.  You need at least three if you want to
;  tolerate any node failures.  Always create an odd number.
[mon]
        mon data = /disk/sda3/cephmon/data/mon$id

        ; logging, for debugging monitor crashes, in order of
        ; their likelihood of being helpful :)
        ;debug ms = 1
        ;debug mon = 20
        ;debug paxos = 20
        ;debug auth = 20

[mon0]
        host = mach1
        mon addr = 1.2.3.4:6789

[mon1]
        host = mach2
        mon addr = 1.2.3.5:6789

[mon1]
        host = mach3
        mon addr = 1.2.3.6:6789

; mds
;  You need at least one.  Define two to get a standby.
[mds]
        ; where the mds keeps it's secret encryption keys
        keyring = /data/keyring.$name

        ; mds logging to debug issues.
        ;debug ms = 1
        ;debug mds = 20

[mds.alpha]
        host = mach2

[mds.beta]
        host = mach3

[mds.gamma]
        host = mach1

; osd
;  You need at least one.  Two if you want data to be replicated.
;  Define as many as you like.
[osd]
        ; osd logging to debug osd issues, in order of likelihood of being
        ; helpful
        ;debug ms = 1
        ;debug osd = 20
        ;debug filestore = 20
        ;debug journal = 20

[osd0]
        host = mach10
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd1]
        host = mach11
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd2]
        host = mach12
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd3]
        host = mach13
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd4]
        host = mach14
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd5]
        host = mach15
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd6]
        host = mach16
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd7]
        host = mach17
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd8]
        host = mach18
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd9]
        host = mach19
        osd data = /disk/sdb3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdb3

[osd10]
        host = mach10
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd11]
        host = mach11
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd12]
        host = mach12
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd13]
        host = mach13
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd14]
        host = mach14
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd15]
        host = mach15
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd16]
        host = mach16
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd17]
        host = mach17
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd18]
        host = mach18
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd19]
        host = mach19
        osd data = /disk/sdd3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdd3

[osd20]
        host = mach10
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd21]
        host = mach11
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd22]
        host = mach12
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd23]
        host = mach13
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd24]
        host = mach14
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd25]
        host = mach15
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd26]
        host = mach16
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd27]
        host = mach17
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd28]
        host = mach18
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd29]
        host = mach19
        osd data = /disk/sde3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sde3

[osd30]
        host = mach10
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd31]
        host = mach11
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd32]
        host = mach12
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd33]
        host = mach13
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd34]
        host = mach14
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd35]
        host = mach15
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd36]
        host = mach16
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd37]
        host = mach17
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd38]
        host = mach18
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd39]
        host = mach19
        osd data = /disk/sdf3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdf3

[osd40]
        host = mach10
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd41]
        host = mach11
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd42]
        host = mach12
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd43]
        host = mach13
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd44]
        host = mach14
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd45]
        host = mach15
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd46]
        host = mach16
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd47]
        host = mach17
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd48]
        host = mach18
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3

[osd49]
        host = mach19
        osd data = /disk/sdg3/cephdata
        osd journal = /disk/sdc3/cephjnl.sdg3



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