Ow it got worse after the upgrade to Reef (was running Quincy). With Quincy the 
memory usage was also a lot of times around 95% and some swap usage, but never 
exceeding both to the point of crashing. 

Kind regards, 
Sake
> Op 31-08-2024 09:15 CEST schreef Alexander Patrakov <patra...@gmail.com>:
> 
>  
> Got it.
> 
> However, to narrow down the issue, I suggest that you test whether it
> still exists after the following changes:
> 
> 1. Reduce max_mds to 1.
> 2. Do not reduce max_mds to 1, but migrate all clients from a direct
> CephFS mount to NFS.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 2:55 PM Sake Ceph <c...@paulusma.eu> wrote:
> >
> > I was talking about the hosts where the MDS containers are running on. The 
> > clients are all RHEL 9.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Sake
> >
> > > Op 31-08-2024 08:34 CEST schreef Alexander Patrakov <patra...@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Sake,
> > >
> > > The combination of two active MDSs and RHEL8 does ring a bell, and I
> > > have seen this with Quincy, too. However, what's relevant is the
> > > kernel version on the clients. If they run the default 4.18.x kernel
> > > from RHEL8, please either upgrade to the mainline kernel or decrease
> > > max_mds to 1. If they run a modern kernel, then it is something I do
> > > not know about.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 1:21 PM Sake Ceph <c...@paulusma.eu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > @Anthony: it's a small virtualized cluster and indeed SWAP shouldn't be 
> > > > used, but this doesn't change the problem.
> > > >
> > > > @Alexander: the problem is in the active nodes, the standby replay 
> > > > don't have issues anymore.
> > > >
> > > > Last night's backup run increased the memory usage to 86% when rsync 
> > > > was running for app2. It dropped to 77,8% when it was done. When the 
> > > > rsync for app4 was running it increased to 84% and dropping to 80%. 
> > > > After a few hours it's now settled on 82%.
> > > > It looks to me the MDS server is caching something forever while it 
> > > > isn't being used..
> > > >
> > > > The underlying host is running on RHEL 8. Upgrade to RHEL 9 is planned, 
> > > > but hit some issues with automatically upgrading hosts.
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > > Sake
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> > >
> > > --
> > > Alexander Patrakov
> 
> 
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