I don’t run Ceph on btrfs, but isn’t this related to the btrfs snapshotting 
feature ceph uses to ensure a consistent journal?

Jan

> On 19 Jun 2015, at 14:26, Lionel Bouton <lionel+c...@bouton.name> wrote:
> 
> On 06/19/15 13:42, Burkhard Linke wrote:
>> 
>> Forget the reply to the list...
>> 
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:     Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs
>> Date:        Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:06:33 +0200
>> From:        Burkhard Linke 
>> <burkhard.li...@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de> 
>> <mailto:burkhard.li...@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de>
>> To:  Lionel Bouton <lionel+c...@bouton.name> <mailto:lionel+c...@bouton.name>
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 06/18/2015 11:28 PM, Lionel Bouton wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> *snipsnap*
>> 
>> > - Disks with btrfs OSD have a spike of activity every 30s (2 intervals
>> > of 10s with nearly 0 activity, one interval with a total amount of
>> > writes of ~120MB). The averages are : 4MB/s, 100 IO/s.
>> 
>> Just a guess:
>> 
>> btrfs has a commit interval which defaults to 30 seconds.
>> 
>> You can verify this by changing the interval with the commit=XYZ mount 
>> option.
> 
> I know and I tested commit intervals of 60 and 120 seconds without any 
> change. As this is directly linked to filestore max sync interval I didn't 
> report this test result.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lionel
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