Re: [ceph-users] Reducing I/O when increasing number of PGs

2014-01-23 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:35 AM, bf wrote: > Gregory Farnum writes: > > >> Yes, Ceph does all the heavy lifting. Multiple PGs with the same OSDs >> can happen (eg, if you only have two OSDs, all PGs will be on both), >> but it behaves about as well as is possible within the configuration >> you g

Re: [ceph-users] Reducing I/O when increasing number of PGs

2014-01-23 Thread bf
Gregory Farnum writes: > Yes, Ceph does all the heavy lifting. Multiple PGs with the same OSDs > can happen (eg, if you only have two OSDs, all PGs will be on both), > but it behaves about as well as is possible within the configuration > you give it. > -Greg > Software Engineer #42http://in

Re: [ceph-users] Reducing I/O when increasing number of PGs

2014-01-22 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:50 PM, bf wrote: > > > Gregory Farnum writes: > >> >> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Caius Howcroft >> > I want to double the number of pgs available for a pool, however I >> > want to reduce as much as possible the resulting I/O storm (I have >> > quite a bit of data

Re: [ceph-users] Reducing I/O when increasing number of PGs

2014-01-22 Thread bf
Gregory Farnum writes: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Caius Howcroft > > I want to double the number of pgs available for a pool, however I > > want to reduce as much as possible the resulting I/O storm (I have > > quite a bit of data in these pools). > > > > What is the best way of doin

Re: [ceph-users] Reducing I/O when increasing number of PGs

2014-01-22 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Caius Howcroft wrote: > Hi all, > > > I want to double the number of pgs available for a pool, however I > want to reduce as much as possible the resulting I/O storm (I have > quite a bit of data in these pools). > > What is the best way of doing this? Is it using

[ceph-users] Reducing I/O when increasing number of PGs

2014-01-22 Thread Caius Howcroft
Hi all, I want to double the number of pgs available for a pool, however I want to reduce as much as possible the resulting I/O storm (I have quite a bit of data in these pools). What is the best way of doing this? Is it using php_nums? for example: increase pg_num form X to 2X while pgp_num <