I had  observed that the slow requests up to 10-20 seconds on writes
may be produced immediately after creation or deletion of a snapshot
of relatively large image, despite that image may be entirely unused
at the moment.

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Gregory Farnum <g...@inktank.com> wrote:
> Which version of Ceph are you running right now and seeing this with
> (Sam reworked it a bit for Cuttlefish and it was in some of the dev
> releases)? Snapshot deletes are a little more expensive than we'd
> like, but I'm surprised they're doing this badly for you. :/
> -Greg
> Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Olivier Bonvalet
> <olivier.bonva...@daevel.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a backup script, which every night :
>> * create a snapshot of each RBD image
>> * then delete all snapshot that have more than 15 days
>>
>> The problem is that "rbd snap rm XXX" will overload my cluster for hours
>> (6 hours today...).
>>
>> Here I see several problems :
>> #1 "rbd snap rm XXX" is not blocking. The erase is done in background,
>> and I know no way to verify if it was completed. So I add "sleeps"
>> between rm, but I have to estimate the time it will take
>>
>> #2 "rbd (snap) rm" are sometimes very very slow. I don't know if it's
>> because of XFS or not, but all my OSD are at 100% IO usage (reported by
>> iostat)
>>
>>
>>
>> So :
>> * is there a way to reduce priority of "snap rm", to avoid overloading
>> of the cluster ?
>> * is there a way to have a blocking "snap rm" which will wait until it's
>> completed
>> * is there a way to speedup "snap rm" ?
>>
>>
>> Note that I have a too low PG number on my cluster (200 PG for 40 active
>> OSD ; but I'm trying to progressivly migrate data to a newer pool). Can
>> it be the source of the problem ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
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