Re: [ceph-users] Best practices for allocating memory to bluestore cache

2018-08-31 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, until Bluestore gets caching that is a) self-tuning (within definable limits) so that a busy OSD can consume more cache than ones that are idle AND b) the cache will be as readily evicted as pagecache in low memory situations you're essential SoL, having the bad choices of increasing

Re: [ceph-users] Best practices for allocating memory to bluestore cache

2018-08-30 Thread Bastiaan Visser
* 1024*1024 (512 MB) - Original Message - From: "David Turner" To: "Tyler Bishop" Cc: "ceph-users" Sent: Friday, August 31, 2018 1:31:37 AM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Best practices for allocating memory to bluestore cache Be very careful trying to utili

Re: [ceph-users] Best practices for allocating memory to bluestore cache

2018-08-30 Thread David Turner
Be very careful trying to utilize more RAM while your cluster is healthy. When you're going to need the extra RAM is when you're closer is unhealthy and your osds are peering, recovering, backfilling, etc. That's when the osd daemons start needing the RAM that is recommended in the docs. On Thu,

[ceph-users] Best practices for allocating memory to bluestore cache

2018-08-30 Thread Tyler Bishop
Hi, My OSD host has 256GB of ram and I have 52 OSD. Currently I have the cache set to 1GB and the system only consumes around 44GB of ram and the other ram sits as unallocated because I am using bluestore vs filestore. The documentation: