Hello Benoît, (and others in this great thread),

Apologies for replying to this ancient thread.

We have been debugging similar issues during an ongoing migration to
new servers with TOSHIBA MG07ACA14TE hdds.

We see a similar commit_latency_ms issue on the new drives (~60ms in
our env vs ~20ms for some old 6TB Seagates).
However, disabling the write cache (hdparm -W 0) made absolutely no
difference for us.

So we're wondering:
* Are we running the same firmware as you? (We have 0104). I wonder if
Toshiba has changed the implementation of the cache in the meantime...
* Is anyone aware of some HBA or other setting in the middle that
might be masking this setting from reaching the drive?

Best Regards,

Dan



On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:44 AM Benoît Knecht <bkne...@protonmail.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a Nautilus (14.2.9) Ceph cluster with two types of HDDs:
>
> - TOSHIBA MG07ACA14TE   [1]
> - HGST HUH721212ALE604  [2]
>
> They're all bluestore OSDs with no separate DB+WAL and part of the same pool.
>
> We noticed that while the HGST OSDs have a commit latency of about 15ms, the 
> Toshiba OSDs hover around 150ms (these values come from the 
> `ceph_osd_commit_latency_ms` metric in Prometheus).
>
> On paper, it seems like those drives have very similar specs, so it's not 
> clear to me why we're seeing such a large difference when it comes to commit 
> latency.
>
> Has anyone had any experience with those Toshiba drives? Or looking at the 
> specs, do you spot anything suspicious?
>
> And if you're running a Ceph cluster with various disk brands/models, have 
> you ever noticed some of them standing out when looking at 
> `ceph_osd_commit_latency_ms`?
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Ben
>
> [1]: 
> https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/content/dam/toshiba-ss/asia-pacific/docs/product/storage/product-manual/eHDD-MG07ACA-Product-Manual.pdf
> [2]: 
> https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc500-series/data-sheet-ultrastar-dc-hc520.pdf
> _______________________________________________
> ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io
> To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io
_______________________________________________
ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io
To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io

Reply via email to