On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:58 AM Vladimir Brik <
vladimir.b...@icecube.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Best I can tell, automatic cache sizing is enabled and all related
> settings are at their default values.
>
> Looking through cache tunables, I came across
> osd_memory_expected_fragmentation, which the docs define as "estimate
> the percent of memory fragmentation". What's the formula to compute
> actual percentage of memory fragmentation?
>
> Based on /proc/buddyinfo, I suspect that our memory fragmentation is a
> lot worse than osd_memory_expected_fragmentation default of 0.15. Could
> this be related to many OSDs' RSSes far exceeding osd_memory_target?
>
> So far high memory consumption hasn't been a problem for us. (I guess
> it's possible that the kernel simply sees no need to reclaim unmapped
> memory until there is actually real memory pressure?)


Oh well that you can check on the admin socket using the “heap” family of
commands. It’ll tell you how much the daemon is actually using out of
what’s allocated, and IIRC what it’s given back to the OS but maybe hasn’t
actually been reclaimed.

It's just a little
> scary not understanding why this started happening when memory usage had
> been so stable before.


>
> Thanks,
>
> Vlad
>
>
>
> On 10/9/19 11:51 AM, Gregory Farnum wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 7:20 AM Vladimir Brik
> > <vladimir.b...@icecube.wisc.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>   > Do you have statistics on the size of the OSDMaps or count of them
> >>   > which were being maintained by the OSDs?
> >> No, I don't think so. How can I find this information?
> >
> > Hmm I don't know if we directly expose the size of maps. There are
> > perfcounters which expose the range of maps being kept around but I
> > don't know their names off-hand.
> >
> > Maybe it's something else involving the bluestore cache or whatever;
> > if you're not using the newer memory limits I'd switch to those but
> > otherwise I dunno.
> > -Greg
> >
> >>
> >> Memory consumption started to climb again:
> >> https://icecube.wisc.edu/~vbrik/graph-3.png
> >>
> >> Some more info (not sure if relevant or not):
> >>
> >> I increased size of the swap on the servers to 10GB and it's being
> >> completely utilized, even though there is still quite a bit of free
> memory.
> >>
> >> It appears that memory is highly fragmented on the NUMA node 0 of all
> >> the servers. Some of the servers have no free pages higher than order 0.
> >> (Memory on NUMA node 1 of the servers appears much less fragmented.)
> >>
> >> The servers have 192GB of RAM, 2 NUMA nodes.
> >>
> >>
> >> Vlad
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/4/19 6:09 PM, Gregory Farnum wrote:
> >>> Do you have statistics on the size of the OSDMaps or count of them
> >>> which were being maintained by the OSDs? I'm not sure why having noout
> >>> set would change that if all the nodes were alive, but that's my bet.
> >>> -Greg
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 7:04 AM Vladimir Brik
> >>> <vladimir.b...@icecube.wisc.edu> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> And, just as unexpectedly, things have returned to normal overnight
> >>>> https://icecube.wisc.edu/~vbrik/graph-1.png
> >>>>
> >>>> The change seems to have coincided with the beginning of Rados Gateway
> >>>> activity (before, it was essentially zero). I can see nothing in the
> >>>> logs that would explain what happened though.
> >>>>
> >>>> Vlad
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 10/2/19 3:43 PM, Vladimir Brik wrote:
> >>>>> Hello
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am running a Ceph 14.2.2 cluster and a few days ago, memory
> >>>>> consumption of our OSDs started to unexpectedly grow on all 5 nodes,
> >>>>> after being stable for about 6 months.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Node memory consumption: https://icecube.wisc.edu/~vbrik/graph.png
> >>>>> Average OSD resident size: https://icecube.wisc.edu/~vbrik/image.png
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am not sure what changed to cause this. Cluster usage has been very
> >>>>> light (typically <10 iops) during this period, and the number of
> objects
> >>>>> stayed about the same.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The only unusual occurrence was the reboot of one of the nodes the
> day
> >>>>> before (a firmware update). For the reboot, I ran "ceph osd set
> noout",
> >>>>> but forgot to unset it until several days later. Unsetting noout did
> not
> >>>>> stop the increase in memory consumption.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I don't see anything unusual in the logs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Our nodes have SSDs and HDDs. Resident set size of SSD ODSs is about
> >>>>> 3.7GB. Resident set size of HDD OSDs varies from about 5GB to 12GB. I
> >>>>> don't know why there is such a big spread. All HDDs are 10TB, 72-76%
> >>>>> utilized, with 101-104 PGs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Does anybody know what might be the problem here and how to address
> or
> >>>>> debug it?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks very much,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Vlad
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