Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-09-01 Thread Nick Fisk
gt; Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? > > > -Original Message- > > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf > > Of Nick Fisk > > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 5:25 AM > > To: 'Samuel Just' > > Cc: ce

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-09-01 Thread Nick Fisk
gt; Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? > > > -Original Message- > > From: Nick Fisk [mailto:n...@fisk.me.uk] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 4:37 PM > > To: Wang, Zhiqiang; 'Samuel Just' > > Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com &

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-09-01 Thread Wang, Zhiqiang
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Fisk [mailto:n...@fisk.me.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 3:55 PM > To: Wang, Zhiqiang; 'Nick Fisk'; 'Samuel Just' > Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Subject: RE: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? > > &g

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-09-01 Thread Nick Fisk
gt; Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? > > > -Original Message- > > From: Nick Fisk [mailto:n...@fisk.me.uk] > > Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 3:55 PM > > To: Wang, Zhiqiang; 'Nick Fisk'; 'Samuel Just' > > Cc: ceph-users@lists.

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-09-01 Thread Wang, Zhiqiang
> -Original Message- > From: Nick Fisk [mailto:n...@fisk.me.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 4:37 PM > To: Wang, Zhiqiang; 'Samuel Just' > Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Subject: RE: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? > > > >

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-31 Thread Wang, Zhiqiang
> -Original Message- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Nick Fisk > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 5:25 AM > To: 'Samuel Just' > Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using E

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-19 Thread Robert LeBlanc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Probably the big question is what are the pain points? The most common answer we get when asking folks what applications they run on top of Ceph is everything!. This is wonderful, but not helpful when trying to figure out what performance

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-19 Thread Christian Balzer
-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:48:26 +0100 Nick Fisk wrote: [mega snip] 4. Disk based OSD with SSD Journal performance As I touched on above earlier, I would expect a disk based OSD with SSD journal to have similar performance to a pure SSD

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-19 Thread Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
- Profihost AG s.pri...@profihost.ag *To: *Mark Nelson mnel...@redhat.com, ceph-users@lists.ceph.com *Sent: *Tuesday, August 18, 2015 7:36:10 AM *Subject: *Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? We're using an extra caching layer for ceph since the beginning for our older ceph

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-19 Thread Nick Fisk
-Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Christian Balzer Sent: 19 August 2015 03:32 To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Cc: Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? On Tue, 18 Aug

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Jan Schermer
From: Dominik Zalewski dzalew...@optlink.net To: German Anders gand...@despegar.com Cc: ceph-users ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
: Dominik Zalewski dzalew...@optlink.net To: German Anders gand...@despegar.com Cc: ceph-users ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Le Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:12:59 +0100 Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk écrivait: Bcache should be the obvious choice if you are in control of the environment. At least you can cry on LKML's shoulder when you lose data :-) Please

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
...@redhat.com Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? I did not. Not sure why now - probably for the same reason I didn't extensively test bcache. I'm not a real fan of device mapper though, so if I had to choose I'd still go for bcache

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Emmanuel Florac
Le Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:12:59 +0100 Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk écrivait: Bcache should be the obvious choice if you are in control of the environment. At least you can cry on LKML's shoulder when you lose data :-) Please note, it looks like the main(only?) dev of Bcache has started

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Mark Nelson
: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search the mailing list archives for EnhanceIO :) and got some interesting answers. Looks like the project is pretty much dead since

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
...@optlink.net To: German Anders gand...@despegar.com Cc: ceph-users ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search the mailing list archives for EnhanceIO

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Jan Schermer
it with a grain of salt, but that's what I would recommend. Daniel From: Dominik Zalewski dzalew...@optlink.net To: German Anders gand...@despegar.com Cc: ceph-users ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
-Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Jan Schermer Sent: 18 August 2015 17:13 To: Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? On 18 Aug 2015

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Alex Gorbachev
IE, should we be focusing on IOPS? Latency? Finding a way to avoid journal overhead for large writes? Are there specific use cases where we should specifically be focusing attention? general iscsi? S3? databases directly on RBD? etc. There's tons of different areas that we can work on

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Mark Nelson
On 08/18/2015 11:52 AM, Nick Fisk wrote: snip Here's kind of how I see the field right now: 1) Cache at the client level. Likely fastest but obvious issues like above. RAID1 might be an option at increased cost. Lack of barriers in some implementations scary. Agreed. 2) Cache below

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Samuel Just
[mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Mark Nelson Sent: 18 August 2015 18:51 To: Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk; 'Jan Schermer' j...@schermer.cz Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? On 08/18/2015 11:52 AM, Nick Fisk

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
-Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Mark Nelson Sent: 18 August 2015 18:51 To: Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk; 'Jan Schermer' j...@schermer.cz Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Christian Balzer
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 20:48:26 +0100 Nick Fisk wrote: [mega snip] 4. Disk based OSD with SSD Journal performance As I touched on above earlier, I would expect a disk based OSD with SSD journal to have similar performance to a pure SSD OSD when dealing with sequential small IO's. Currently the

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Christian Balzer
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:50:38 -0500 Mark Nelson wrote: [snap] Probably the big question is what are the pain points? The most common answer we get when asking folks what applications they run on top of Ceph is everything!. This is wonderful, but not helpful when trying to figure out what

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
Hi Sam, -Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Samuel Just Sent: 18 August 2015 21:38 To: Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? 1. We've

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Campbell, Bill
, August 18, 2015 7:36:10 AM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? We're using an extra caching layer for ceph since the beginning for our older ceph deployments. All new deployments go with full SSDs. I've tested so far: - EnhanceIO - Flashcache - Bcache - dm

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Mark Nelson
...@redhat.com Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? I did not. Not sure why now - probably for the same reason I didn't extensively test bcache. I'm not a real fan of device mapper though, so if I had to choose I'd still go for bcache :-) Jan

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Mark Nelson
high performance. -Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Jan Schermer Sent: 18 August 2015 12:44 To: Mark Nelson mnel...@redhat.com Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? I

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
. -Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Jan Schermer Sent: 18 August 2015 12:44 To: Mark Nelson mnel...@redhat.com Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? I did

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
snip Here's kind of how I see the field right now: 1) Cache at the client level. Likely fastest but obvious issues like above. RAID1 might be an option at increased cost. Lack of barriers in some implementations scary. Agreed. 2) Cache below the OSD. Not much recent

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Alex Gorbachev
Anders gand...@despegar.com Cc: ceph-users ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search the mailing list archives for EnhanceIO :) and got some

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Jan Schermer
@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? On 08/18/2015 06:47 AM, Nick Fisk wrote: Just to chime in, I gave dmcache a limited test but its lack of proper writeback cache ruled it out for me. It only performs write back caching on blocks already on the SSD

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Mark Nelson
Of Jan Schermer Sent: 18 August 2015 12:44 To: Mark Nelson mnel...@redhat.com Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? I did not. Not sure why now - probably for the same reason I didn't extensively test bcache. I'm not a real fan of device mapper

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-18 Thread Nick Fisk
...@redhat.com Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? I did not. Not sure why now - probably for the same reason I didn't extensively test bcache. I'm not a real fan of device mapper though, so if I had to choose I'd still go

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-08-17 Thread Alex Gorbachev
...@optlink.net To: German Anders gand...@despegar.com Cc: ceph-users ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search the mailing list archives

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-23 Thread Dominik Zalewski
Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search the mailing list archives for EnhanceIO :) and got some interesting answers. Looks like the project is pretty much dead since it was bought out by HGST. Even their website has some broken links in regards to EnhanceIO I’m keen to try

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-23 Thread Daniel Gryniewicz
To: German Anders gand...@despegar.com Cc: ceph-users ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2015 5:28:10 PM Subject: Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO? Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search the mailing list archives for EnhanceIO :) and got

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-02 Thread German Anders
output from iostat: *CEPHOSD01:* Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/srMB/swMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util sdc(ceph-0) 0.00 0.001.00 389.00 0.0035.98 188.9660.32 120.12 16.00 120.39 1.26 49.20 sdd(ceph-1)

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-02 Thread Emmanuel Florac
Le Wed, 1 Jul 2015 17:13:03 -0300 German Anders gand...@despegar.com écrivait: Hi cephers, Is anyone out there that implement enhanceIO in a production environment? any recommendation? any perf output to share with the diff between using it and not? I've tried EnhanceIO back when it

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-02 Thread German Anders
The idea is to cache rbd at a host level. Also could be possible to cache at the osd level. We have high iowait and we need to lower it a bit, since we are getting the max from our sas disks 100-110 iops per disk (3TB osd's), any advice? Flashcache? On Thursday, July 2, 2015, Jan Schermer

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-02 Thread Jan Schermer
I think I posted my experience here ~1 month ago. My advice for EnhanceIO: don’t use it. But you didn’t exactly say what you want to cache - do you want to cache the OSD filestore disks? RBD devices on hosts? RBD devices inside guests? Jan On 02 Jul 2015, at 11:29, Emmanuel Florac

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-02 Thread Jan Schermer
And those disks are spindles? Looks like there’s simply too few of there…. Jan On 02 Jul 2015, at 13:49, German Anders gand...@despegar.com wrote: output from iostat: CEPHOSD01: Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/srMB/swMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-02 Thread Lionel Bouton
On 07/02/15 13:49, German Anders wrote: output from iostat: CEPHOSD01: Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/srMB/swMB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util sdc(ceph-0) 0.00 0.001.00 389.00 0.0035.98 188.9660.32 120.12

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-02 Thread German Anders
yeah 3TB SAS disks *German Anders* Storage System Engineer Leader *Despegar* | IT Team *office* +54 11 4894 3500 x3408 *mobile* +54 911 3493 7262 *mail* gand...@despegar.com 2015-07-02 9:04 GMT-03:00 Jan Schermer j...@schermer.cz: And those disks are spindles? Looks like there’s simply too

[ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-01 Thread German Anders
Hi cephers, Is anyone out there that implement enhanceIO in a production environment? any recommendation? any perf output to share with the diff between using it and not? Thanks in advance, *German* ___ ceph-users mailing list

Re: [ceph-users] any recommendation of using EnhanceIO?

2015-07-01 Thread Dominik Zalewski
Hi, I’ve asked same question last weeks or so (just search the mailing list archives for EnhanceIO :) and got some interesting answers. Looks like the project is pretty much dead since it was bought out by HGST. Even their website has some broken links in regards to EnhanceIO I’m keen to try