Hi Kate,

Thanks for your reply. We currently use xfs as created by ceph-deploy.

What would you recommend we try?

Kind regards,
Tom


On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Kate Ward <kate.w...@forestent.com> wrote:

> What filesystem do you use on the OSD? Have you considered a different
> filesystem that is better at combining requests before they get to the
> drive?
>
> k8
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:52 AM Thomas Bennett <tho...@ska.ac.za> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a use case where we are reading 128MB objects off spinning disks.
>>
>> We've benchmarked a number of different hard drive and have noticed that
>> for a particular hard drive, we're experiencing slow reads by comparison.
>>
>> This occurs when we have multiple readers (even just 2) reading objects
>> off the OSD.
>>
>> We've recreated the effect using iozone and have noticed that once the
>> record size drops to 4k, the hard drive miss behaves.
>>
>> Is there a setting on Ceph that we can change to fix the minimum read
>> size when the ceph-osd daemon reads the object of the hard drives, to see
>> if we can overcome the overall slow read rate.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tom
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