> On Jan 4, 2025, at 10:56 AM, Nicola Mori <m...@fi.infn.it> wrote: > > Ok, will do it after upgrading the two disks of the currently destroyed OSDs > on Tuesday. > In the meantime let me ask another question, to better understand the > situation. To the best of my knowledge, the autoscaler and the balancer are > two different entities, the former taking care of setting the number off PGs > and the latter of distributing them to the OSDs according to the CRUSH rules. > If this is correct, then I'd say my issue is with the balancer and not with > the autoscaler, unless the problem is that with too few PGs the balancer is > unable to distribute them uniformly. Is this correct? If yes, then should I > expect that after turning the autoscaler on the number of PGs will be > increased and my problem hopefully resolved?
Yes to all of the above. With too few PGs, the balancer can’t do a very uniform job. Think of an oil drum. Pack it full of basketballs, or golf balls. > _______________________________________________ > 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
