Re: [ceph-users] Ceiling on number of PGs in a OSD

2015-03-20 Thread Craig Lewis
This isn't a hard limit on the number, but it's recommended that you keep it around 100. Smaller values cause data distribution evenness problems. Larger values cause the OSD processes to use more CPU, RAM, and file descriptors, particularly during recovery. With that many OSDs, you're going to w

[ceph-users] Ceiling on number of PGs in a OSD

2015-03-19 Thread Sreenath BH
Hi, Is there a celing on the number for number of placement groups in a OSD beyond which steady state and/or recovery performance will start to suffer? Example: I need to create a pool with 750 osds (25 OSD per server, 50 servers). The PG calculator gives me 65536 placement groups with 300 PGs pe