Hi all,

we seem to have a serious issue with our file system, ceph version is pacific 
latest. After a large cleanup operation we had an MDS rank with 100Mio stray 
entries (yes, one hundred million). Today we restarted this daemon, which 
cleans up the stray entries. It seems that this leads to a restart loop due to 
OOM. The rank becomes active and then starts pulling in DNS and INOS entries 
until all memory is exhausted.

I have no idea if there is at least progress removing the stray items or if it 
starts from scratch every time. If it needs to pull as many DNS/INOS into cache 
as there are stray items, we don't have a server at hand with enough RAM.

Q1: Is the MDS at least making progress in every restart iteration?
Q2: If not, how do we get this rank up again?
Q3: If we can't get this rank up soon, can we at least move directories away 
from this rank by pinning it to another rank?

Currently, the rank in question reports .mds_cache.num_strays=0 in perf dump.

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Frank Schilder
AIT Risø Campus
Bygning 109, rum S14
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