Hi, Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:57:51 +0000 Simon Ironside <sirons...@caffetine.org> ==> ceph-users@lists.ceph.com : > Mattia Belluco said back in May: > http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2019-May/035086.html > > "when RocksDB needs to compact a layer it rewrites it > *before* deleting the old data; if you'd like to be sure you db does not > spill over to the spindle you should allocate twice the size of the > biggest layer to allow for compaction." > > I didn't spot anyone disagreeing so I used 64GiB DB/WAL partitions on > the SSDs in my most recent clusters to allow for this and to be certain > that I definitely had room for the WAL on top and wouldn't get caught > out by people saying GB (x1000^3 bytes) when they mean GiB (x1024^3 > bytes). I left the rest of the SSD empty to make the most of wear > leveling, garbage collection etc. > > Simon
this is something I liked to get a comment from a developer too. So what about the doubled size for block_db? Thanks Lars _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
