Hi Vitaliy, > You say you don't have access to raw drives. What does it mean? Do you > run Ceph OSDs inside VMs? In that case you should probably disable > Micron caches on the hosts, not just in VMs.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. This cluster is in production, so I needed to schedule a maintenance window to do some tests, including "out"ing an OSD and removing the OSD from Ceph, so I can perform some tests, as well as maintenance to remove a host from the cluster, so power off/on tests can be performed. Right now, all I have access to is the VM-level and the ability to enable/disable the write cache on the 5200's using hdparm (but no read/write tests directly on the 5200's, of course, which would require destructive operations). > Yes, disabling the write cache only takes place upon a power cycle... or > upon the next hotplug of the drive itself. I have a suspicion this is the reason we didn't see any change! :) Definitely an important item. Once I have test results, I will report back. May be something you want to add to your wiki article. > If you get the same ~15k or more iops with -rw=randwrite -fsync=1 > -iodepth=1 with both hdparm -W 0 and -W 1 you're good :) if you have > cache problems you'll get much less. Once I have a 5200 available to play with, I will definitely let you know the results. > About Micron 5300's, please benchmark them when you have them as > described here > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E9-eXjzsKboiCCX- > 0u0r5fAjjufLKayaut_FOPxYZjc/edit > (instructions in the end of the sheet) Most definitely. I suspect it will be another month before we get them unfortunately. :( Eric _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
