Thank you Dan! I will definitely disable autoscaler on the rest of our pools. I 
can't get the PG numbers today, but I will try to get them tomorrow. We 
definitely want to get this under control. 

Thank you,
Ray 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan van der Ster <dvand...@gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 2:46 PM
To: Ray Cunningham <ray.cunning...@keepertech.com>
Cc: ceph-users@ceph.io
Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Stop Rebalancing

Hi Ray,

Disabling the autoscaler on all pools is probably a good idea. At least until 
https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/53729 is fixed. (You are likely not susceptible 
to that -- but better safe than sorry).

To pause the ongoing PG merges, you can indeed set the pg_num to the current 
value. This will allow the ongoing merge complete and prevent further merges 
from starting.
From `ceph osd pool ls detail` you'll see pg_num, pgp_num, pg_num_target, 
pgp_num_target... If you share the current values of those we can help advise 
what you need to set the pg_num to to effectively pause things where they are.

BTW -- I'm going to create a request in the tracker that we improve the pg 
autoscaler heuristic. IMHO the autoscaler should estimate the time to carry out 
a split/merge operation and avoid taking one-way decisions without permission 
from the administrator. The autoscaler is meant to be helpful, not degrade a 
cluster for 100 days!

Cheers, Dan



On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 9:04 PM Ray Cunningham <ray.cunning...@keepertech.com> 
wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We just upgraded our 640 OSD cluster to Ceph 16.2.7 and the resulting 
> rebalancing of misplaced objects is overwhelming the cluster and impacting 
> MON DB compaction, deep scrub repairs and us upgrading legacy bluestore OSDs. 
> We have to pause the rebalancing if misplaced objects or we're going to fall 
> over.
>
> Autoscaler-status tells us that we are reducing our PGs by 700'ish which will 
> take us over 100 days to complete at our current recovery speed. We disabled 
> autoscaler on our biggest pool, but I'm concerned that it's already on the 
> path to the lower PG count and won't stop adding to our misplaced count after 
> drop below 5%. What can we do to stop the cluster from finding more misplaced 
> objects to rebalance? Should we set the PG num manually to what our current 
> count is? Or will that cause even more havoc?
>
> Any other thoughts or ideas? My goals are to stop the rebalancing temporarily 
> so we can deep scrub and repair inconsistencies, upgrade legacy bluestore 
> OSDs and compact our MON DBs (supposedly MON DBs don't compact when you 
> aren't 100% active+clean).
>
> Thank you,
> Ray
>
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