We choose prime number shard counts, yes. Indexless buckets do increase insert-delete performance, but by definition, though, an indexless bucket cannot be listed.
Matt On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 1:46 PM Anthony D'Atri <[email protected]> wrote: > Do I recall that the number of shards is ideally odd, or even prime? > Performance might be increased by indexless buckets if the application can > handle > > > On Aug 29, 2022, at 10:06 AM, J. Eric Ivancich <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Generally it’s a good thing. There’s less contention for bucket index > updates when, for example, lots of writes are happening together. Dynamic > resharding will take things up to 1999 shards on its own with the default > config. > > > > Given that we use hashing of objet names to determine which shard they > go to, the most complicated operation is bucket listing, which has to > retrieve entries from each shard, order them, and return them to the > client. And it has to do this in batches of about 1000 at a time. > > > > It looks like you’re expecting on the order of 10,000,000 objects in > these buckets, so I imagine you’re not going to be listing them with any > regularity. > > > > Eric > > (he/him) > > > >> On Aug 29, 2022, at 12:06 PM, Boris Behrens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi there, > >> > >> I have some buckets that would require >100 shards and I would like to > ask > >> if there are any downsides to have these many shards on a bucket? > >> > >> Cheers > >> Boris > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- Matt Benjamin Red Hat, Inc. 315 West Huron Street, Suite 140A Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/storage tel. 734-821-5101 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309 _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
