No, I have not ruled out the disk controller and backplane making the disks
slower.
Is there a way I could test that theory, other than swapping out hardware?
-RG

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 3:44 PM, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you ruled out the disk controller and backplane in the server running
> slower?
>
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 4:42 PM Russell Glaue <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I ran the test on the Ceph pool, and ran atop on all 4 storage servers,
>> as suggested.
>>
>> Out of the 4 servers:
>> 3 of them performed with 17% to 30% disk %busy, and 11% CPU wait.
>> Momentarily spiking up to 50% on one server, and 80% on another
>> The 2nd newest server was almost averaging 90% disk %busy and 150% CPU
>> wait. And more than momentarily spiking to 101% disk busy and 250% CPU wait.
>> For this 2nd newest server, this was the statistics for about 8 of 9
>> disks, with the 9th disk not far behind the others.
>>
>> I cannot believe all 9 disks are bad
>> They are the same disks as the newest 1st server, Crucial_CT960M500SSD1,
>> and same exact server hardware too.
>> They were purchased at the same time in the same purchase order and
>> arrived at the same time.
>> So I cannot believe I just happened to put 9 bad disks in one server, and
>> 9 good ones in the other.
>>
>> I know I have Ceph configured exactly the same on all servers
>> And I am sure I have the hardware settings configured exactly the same on
>> the 1st and 2nd servers.
>> So if I were someone else, I would say it maybe is bad hardware on the
>> 2nd server.
>> But the 2nd server is running very well without any hint of a problem.
>>
>> Any other ideas or suggestions?
>>
>> -RG
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Maged Mokhtar <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> just run the same 32 threaded rados test as you did before and this time
>>> run atop while the test is running looking for %busy of cpu/disks. It
>>> should give an idea if there is a bottleneck in them.
>>>
>>> On 2017-10-18 21:35, Russell Glaue wrote:
>>>
>>> I cannot run the write test reviewed at the ceph-how-to-test-if-your-
>>> ssd-is-suitable-as-a-journal-device blog. The tests write directly to
>>> the raw disk device.
>>> Reading an infile (created with urandom) on one SSD, writing the outfile
>>> to another osd, yields about 17MB/s.
>>> But Isn't this write speed limited by the speed in which in the dd
>>> infile can be read?
>>> And I assume the best test should be run with no other load.
>>>
>>> How does one run the rados bench "as stress"?
>>>
>>> -RG
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Maged Mokhtar <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> measuring resource load as outlined earlier will show if the drives are
>>>> performing well or not. Also how many osds do you have  ?
>>>>
>>>> On 2017-10-18 19:26, Russell Glaue wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The SSD drives are Crucial M500
>>>> A Ceph user did some benchmarks and found it had good performance
>>>> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ceph-bad-performance-
>>>> in-qemu-guests.21551/
>>>>
>>>> However, a user comment from 3 years ago on the blog post you linked to
>>>> says to avoid the Crucial M500
>>>>
>>>> Yet, this performance posting tells that the Crucial M500 is good.
>>>> https://inside.servers.com/ssd-performance-2017-c4307a92dea
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Maged Mokhtar <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Check out the following link: some SSDs perform bad in Ceph due to
>>>>> sync writes to journal
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2014/10/10/ceph-how-to-
>>>>> test-if-your-ssd-is-suitable-as-a-journal-device/
>>>>>
>>>>> Anther thing that can help is to re-run the rados 32 threads as stress
>>>>> and view resource usage using atop (or collectl/sar) to check for %busy 
>>>>> cpu
>>>>> and %busy disks to give you an idea of what is holding down your
>>>>> cluster..for example: if cpu/disk % are all low then check your
>>>>> network/switches.  If disk %busy is high (90%) for all disks then your
>>>>> disks are the bottleneck: which either means you have SSDs that are not
>>>>> suitable for Ceph or you have too few disks (which i doubt is the case). 
>>>>> If
>>>>> only 1 disk %busy is high, there may be something wrong with this disk
>>>>> should be removed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maged
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2017-10-18 18:13, Russell Glaue wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> In my previous post, in one of my points I was wondering if the
>>>>> request size would increase if I enabled jumbo packets. currently it is
>>>>> disabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> @jdillama: The qemu settings for both these two guest machines, with
>>>>> RAID/LVM and Ceph/rbd images, are the same. I am not thinking that 
>>>>> changing
>>>>> the qemu settings of "min_io_size=<limited to 16bits>,opt_io_size=<RBD
>>>>> image object size>" will directly address the issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> @mmokhtar: Ok. So you suggest the request size is the result of the
>>>>> problem and not the cause of the problem. meaning I should go after a
>>>>> different issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been trying to get write speeds up to what people on this mail
>>>>> list are discussing.
>>>>> It seems that for our configuration, as it matches others, we should
>>>>> be getting about 70MB/s write speed.
>>>>> But we are not getting that.
>>>>> Single writes to disk are lucky to get 5MB/s to 6MB/s, but are
>>>>> typically 1MB/s to 2MB/s.
>>>>> Monitoring the entire Ceph cluster (using
>>>>> http://cephdash.crapworks.de/), I have seen very rare momentary
>>>>> spikes up to 30MB/s.
>>>>>
>>>>> My storage network is connected via a 10Gb switch
>>>>> I have 4 storage servers with a LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS 2208 controller
>>>>> Each storage server has 9 1TB SSD drives, each drive as 1 osd (no RAID)
>>>>> Each drive is one LVM group, with two volumes - one volume for the
>>>>> osd, one volume for the journal
>>>>> Each osd is formatted with xfs
>>>>> The crush map is simple: default->rack->[host[1..4]->osd] with an
>>>>> evenly distributed weight
>>>>> The redundancy is triple replication
>>>>>
>>>>> While I have read comments that having the osd and journal on the same
>>>>> disk decreases write speed, I have also read that once past 8 OSDs per 
>>>>> node
>>>>> this is the recommended configuration, however this is also the reason why
>>>>> SSD drives are used exclusively for OSDs in the storage nodes.
>>>>> None-the-less, I was still expecting write speeds to be above 30MB/s,
>>>>> not below 6MB/s.
>>>>> Even at 12x slower than the RAID, using my previously posted iostat
>>>>> data set, I should be seeing write speeds that average 10MB/s, not 2MB/s.
>>>>>
>>>>> In regards to the rados benchmark tests you asked me to run, here is
>>>>> the output:
>>>>>
>>>>> [centos7]# rados bench -p scbench -b 4096 30 write -t 1
>>>>> Maintaining 1 concurrent writes of 4096 bytes to objects of size 4096
>>>>> for up to 30 seconds or 0 objects
>>>>> Object prefix: benchmark_data_hamms.sys.cu.cait.org_85049
>>>>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>>>>> lat(s)
>>>>>     0       0         0         0         0         0           -
>>>>>       0
>>>>>     1       1       201       200   0.78356   0.78125  0.00522307
>>>>>  0.00496574
>>>>>     2       1       469       468  0.915303   1.04688  0.00437497
>>>>>  0.00426141
>>>>>     3       1       741       740  0.964371    1.0625  0.00512853
>>>>> 0.0040434
>>>>>     4       1       888       887  0.866739  0.574219  0.00307699
>>>>>  0.00450177
>>>>>     5       1      1147      1146  0.895725   1.01172  0.00376454
>>>>> 0.0043559
>>>>>     6       1      1325      1324  0.862293  0.695312  0.00459443
>>>>>  0.004525
>>>>>     7       1      1494      1493   0.83339  0.660156  0.00461002
>>>>>  0.00458452
>>>>>     8       1      1736      1735  0.847369  0.945312  0.00253971
>>>>>  0.00460458
>>>>>     9       1      1998      1997  0.866922   1.02344  0.00236573
>>>>>  0.00450172
>>>>>    10       1      2260      2259  0.882563   1.02344  0.00262179
>>>>>  0.00442152
>>>>>    11       1      2526      2525  0.896775   1.03906  0.00336914
>>>>>  0.00435092
>>>>>    12       1      2760      2759  0.898203  0.914062  0.00351827
>>>>>  0.00434491
>>>>>    13       1      3016      3015  0.906025         1  0.00335703
>>>>>  0.00430691
>>>>>    14       1      3257      3256  0.908545  0.941406  0.00332344
>>>>>  0.00429495
>>>>>    15       1      3490      3489  0.908644  0.910156  0.00318815
>>>>>  0.00426387
>>>>>    16       1      3728      3727  0.909952  0.929688   0.0032881
>>>>>  0.00428895
>>>>>    17       1      3986      3985  0.915703   1.00781  0.00274809
>>>>> 0.0042614
>>>>>    18       1      4250      4249  0.922116   1.03125  0.00287411
>>>>>  0.00423214
>>>>>    19       1      4505      4504  0.926003  0.996094  0.00375435
>>>>>  0.00421442
>>>>> 2017-10-18 10:56:31.267173 min lat: 0.00181259 max lat: 0.270553 avg
>>>>> lat: 0.00420118
>>>>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>>>>> lat(s)
>>>>>    20       1      4757      4756  0.928915  0.984375  0.00463972
>>>>>  0.00420118
>>>>>    21       1      5009      5008   0.93155  0.984375  0.00360065
>>>>>  0.00418937
>>>>>    22       1      5235      5234  0.929329  0.882812  0.00626214
>>>>>  0.004199
>>>>>    23       1      5500      5499  0.933925   1.03516  0.00466584
>>>>>  0.00417836
>>>>>    24       1      5708      5707  0.928861    0.8125  0.00285727
>>>>>  0.00420146
>>>>>    25       0      5964      5964  0.931858   1.00391  0.00417383
>>>>> 0.0041881
>>>>>    26       1      6216      6215  0.933722  0.980469   0.0041009
>>>>>  0.00417915
>>>>>    27       1      6481      6480  0.937474   1.03516  0.00307484
>>>>>  0.00416118
>>>>>    28       1      6745      6744  0.940819   1.03125  0.00266329
>>>>>  0.00414777
>>>>>    29       1      7003      7002  0.943124   1.00781  0.00305905
>>>>>  0.00413758
>>>>>    30       1      7271      7270  0.946578   1.04688  0.00391017
>>>>>  0.00412238
>>>>> Total time run:         30.006060
>>>>> Total writes made:      7272
>>>>> Write size:             4096
>>>>> Object size:            4096
>>>>> Bandwidth (MB/sec):     0.946684
>>>>> Stddev Bandwidth:       0.123762
>>>>> Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 1.0625
>>>>> Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 0.574219
>>>>> Average IOPS:           242
>>>>> Stddev IOPS:            31
>>>>> Max IOPS:               272
>>>>> Min IOPS:               147
>>>>> Average Latency(s):     0.00412247
>>>>> Stddev Latency(s):      0.00648437
>>>>> Max latency(s):         0.270553
>>>>> Min latency(s):         0.00175318
>>>>> Cleaning up (deleting benchmark objects)
>>>>> Clean up completed and total clean up time :29.069423
>>>>>
>>>>> [centos7]# rados bench -p scbench -b 4096 30 write -t 32
>>>>> Maintaining 32 concurrent writes of 4096 bytes to objects of size 4096
>>>>> for up to 30 seconds or 0 objects
>>>>> Object prefix: benchmark_data_hamms.sys.cu.cait.org_86076
>>>>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>>>>> lat(s)
>>>>>     0       0         0         0         0         0           -
>>>>>       0
>>>>>     1      32      3013      2981   11.6438   11.6445  0.00247906
>>>>>  0.00572026
>>>>>     2      32      5349      5317   10.3834     9.125  0.00246662
>>>>>  0.00932016
>>>>>     3      32      5707      5675    7.3883   1.39844  0.00389774
>>>>> 0.0156726
>>>>>     4      32      5895      5863   5.72481  0.734375     1.13137
>>>>> 0.0167946
>>>>>     5      32      6869      6837   5.34068   3.80469   0.0027652
>>>>> 0.0226577
>>>>>     6      32      8901      8869   5.77306    7.9375   0.0053211
>>>>> 0.0216259
>>>>>     7      32     10800     10768   6.00785   7.41797  0.00358187
>>>>> 0.0207418
>>>>>     8      32     11825     11793   5.75728   4.00391  0.00217575
>>>>> 0.0215494
>>>>>     9      32     12941     12909    5.6019   4.35938  0.00278512
>>>>> 0.0220567
>>>>>    10      32     13317     13285   5.18849   1.46875   0.0034973
>>>>> 0.0240665
>>>>>    11      32     16189     16157   5.73653   11.2188  0.00255841
>>>>> 0.0212708
>>>>>    12      32     16749     16717   5.44077    2.1875  0.00330334
>>>>> 0.0215915
>>>>>    13      32     16756     16724   5.02436 0.0273438  0.00338994
>>>>>  0.021849
>>>>>    14      32     17908     17876   4.98686       4.5  0.00402598
>>>>> 0.0244568
>>>>>    15      32     17936     17904   4.66171  0.109375  0.00375799
>>>>> 0.0245545
>>>>>    16      32     18279     18247   4.45409   1.33984  0.00483873
>>>>> 0.0267929
>>>>>    17      32     18372     18340   4.21346  0.363281  0.00505187
>>>>> 0.0275887
>>>>>    18      32     19403     19371   4.20309   4.02734  0.00545154
>>>>>  0.029348
>>>>>    19      31     19845     19814   4.07295   1.73047  0.00254726
>>>>> 0.0306775
>>>>> 2017-10-18 10:57:58.160536 min lat: 0.0015005 max lat: 2.27707 avg
>>>>> lat: 0.0307559
>>>>>   sec Cur ops   started  finished  avg MB/s  cur MB/s last lat(s)  avg
>>>>> lat(s)
>>>>>    20      31     20401     20370   3.97788   2.17188  0.00307238
>>>>> 0.0307559
>>>>>    21      32     21338     21306   3.96254   3.65625  0.00464563
>>>>> 0.0312288
>>>>>    22      32     23057     23025    4.0876   6.71484  0.00296295
>>>>> 0.0299267
>>>>>    23      32     23057     23025   3.90988         0           -
>>>>> 0.0299267
>>>>>    24      32     23803     23771   3.86837   1.45703  0.00301471
>>>>> 0.0312804
>>>>>    25      32     24112     24080   3.76191   1.20703  0.00191063
>>>>> 0.0331462
>>>>>    26      31     25303     25272   3.79629   4.65625  0.00794399
>>>>> 0.0329129
>>>>>    27      32     28803     28771   4.16183    13.668   0.0109817
>>>>> 0.0297469
>>>>>    28      32     29592     29560   4.12325   3.08203  0.00188185
>>>>> 0.0301911
>>>>>    29      32     30595     30563   4.11616   3.91797  0.00379099
>>>>> 0.0296794
>>>>>    30      32     31031     30999   4.03572   1.70312  0.00283347
>>>>> 0.0302411
>>>>> Total time run:         30.822350
>>>>> Total writes made:      31032
>>>>> Write size:             4096
>>>>> Object size:            4096
>>>>> Bandwidth (MB/sec):     3.93282
>>>>> Stddev Bandwidth:       3.66265
>>>>> Max bandwidth (MB/sec): 13.668
>>>>> Min bandwidth (MB/sec): 0
>>>>> Average IOPS:           1006
>>>>> Stddev IOPS:            937
>>>>> Max IOPS:               3499
>>>>> Min IOPS:               0
>>>>> Average Latency(s):     0.0317779
>>>>> Stddev Latency(s):      0.164076
>>>>> Max latency(s):         2.27707
>>>>> Min latency(s):         0.0013848
>>>>> Cleaning up (deleting benchmark objects)
>>>>> Clean up completed and total clean up time :20.166559
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Maged Mokhtar <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> First a general comment: local RAID will be faster than Ceph for a
>>>>>> single threaded (queue depth=1) io operation test. A single thread Ceph
>>>>>> client will see at best same disk speed for reads and for writes 4-6 
>>>>>> times
>>>>>> slower than single disk. Not to mention the latency of local disks will
>>>>>> much better. Where Ceph shines is when you have many concurrent ios, it
>>>>>> scales whereas RAID will decrease speed per client as you add more.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Having said that, i would recommend running rados/rbd bench-write and
>>>>>> measure 4k iops at 1 and 32 threads to get a better idea of how your
>>>>>> cluster performs:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ceph osd pool create testpool 256 256
>>>>>> rados bench -p testpool -b 4096 30 write -t 1
>>>>>> rados bench -p testpool -b 4096 30 write -t 32
>>>>>> ceph osd pool delete testpool testpool --yes-i-really-really-mean-it
>>>>>>
>>>>>> rbd bench-write test-image --io-threads=1 --io-size 4096 --io-pattern
>>>>>> rand --rbd_cache=false
>>>>>> rbd bench-write test-image --io-threads=32 --io-size 4096
>>>>>> --io-pattern rand --rbd_cache=false
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think the request size difference you see is due to the io
>>>>>> scheduler in the case of local disks having more ios to re-group so has a
>>>>>> better chance in generating larger requests. Depending on your kernel, 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> io scheduler may be different for rbd (blq-mq) vs sdx (cfq) but again i
>>>>>> would think the request size is a result not a cause.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maged
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2017-10-17 23:12, Russell Glaue wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am running ceph jewel on 5 nodes with SSD OSDs.
>>>>>> I have an LVM image on a local RAID of spinning disks.
>>>>>> I have an RBD image on in a pool of SSD disks.
>>>>>> Both disks are used to run an almost identical CentOS 7 system.
>>>>>> Both systems were installed with the same kickstart, though the disk
>>>>>> partitioning is different.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to make writes on the the ceph image faster. For example, lots
>>>>>> of writes to MySQL (via MySQL replication) on a ceph SSD image are about
>>>>>> 10x slower than on a spindle RAID disk image. The MySQL server on ceph 
>>>>>> rbd
>>>>>> image has a hard time keeping up in replication.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I wanted to test writes on these two systems
>>>>>> I have a 10GB compressed (gzip) file on both servers.
>>>>>> I simply gunzip the file on both systems, while running iostat.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The primary difference I see in the results is the average size of
>>>>>> the request to the disk.
>>>>>> CentOS7-lvm-raid-sata writes a lot faster to disk, and the size of
>>>>>> the request is about 40x, but the number of writes per second is about 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> same
>>>>>> This makes me want to conclude that the smaller size of the request
>>>>>> for CentOS7-ceph-rbd-ssd system is the cause of it being slow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How can I make the size of the request larger for ceph rbd images, so
>>>>>> I can increase the write throughput?
>>>>>> Would this be related to having jumbo packets enabled in my ceph
>>>>>> storage network?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is a sample of the results:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [CentOS7-lvm-raid-sata]
>>>>>> $ gunzip large10gFile.gz &
>>>>>> $ iostat -x vg_root-lv_var -d 5 -m -N
>>>>>> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rMB/s    wMB/s
>>>>>> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   30.60  452.20    13.60   222.15
>>>>>>  1000.04     8.69   14.05    0.99   14.93   2.07 100.04
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   88.20  182.00    39.20    89.43
>>>>>> 974.95     4.65    9.82    0.99   14.10   3.70 100.00
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   75.45  278.24    33.53   136.70
>>>>>> 985.73     4.36   33.26    1.34   41.91   0.59  20.84
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00  111.60  181.80    49.60    89.34
>>>>>> 969.84     2.60    8.87    0.81   13.81   0.13   3.90
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_var     0.00     0.00   68.40  109.60    30.40    53.63
>>>>>> 966.87     1.51    8.46    0.84   13.22   0.80  14.16
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [CentOS7-ceph-rbd-ssd]
>>>>>> $ gunzip large10gFile.gz &
>>>>>> $ iostat -x vg_root-lv_data -d 5 -m -N
>>>>>> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rMB/s    wMB/s
>>>>>> avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   46.40  167.80     0.88     1.46
>>>>>>  22.36     1.23    5.66    2.47    6.54   4.52  96.82
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   16.60   55.20     0.36     0.14
>>>>>>  14.44     0.99   13.91    9.12   15.36  13.71  98.46
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   69.00  173.80     1.34     1.32
>>>>>>  22.48     1.25    5.19    3.77    5.75   3.94  95.68
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   74.40  293.40     1.37     1.47
>>>>>>  15.83     1.22    3.31    2.06    3.63   2.54  93.26
>>>>>> vg_root-lv_data     0.00     0.00   90.80  359.00     1.96     3.41
>>>>>>  24.45     1.63    3.63    1.94    4.05   2.10  94.38
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [iostat key]
>>>>>> w/s == The number (after merges) of write requests completed per
>>>>>> second for the device.
>>>>>> wMB/s == The number of sectors (kilobytes, megabytes) written to the
>>>>>> device per second.
>>>>>> avgrq-sz == The average size (in kilobytes) of the requests that were
>>>>>> issued to the device.
>>>>>> avgqu-sz == The average queue length of the requests that were issued
>>>>>> to the device.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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