Re: [ceph-users] OSD balancing problems

2014-11-19 Thread Lei Dong
We've encountered this problem a lot. As far as I know the best practice should be making the distribution of PG across OSDs as even as you can after you create the pool and before you write any data. 1. the disk utilization = (PGs per OSD) * (files per PG). Ceph is good at making  (files per PG

Re: [ceph-users] OSD balancing problems

2014-11-19 Thread Gregory Farnum
I think these numbers are about what is expected. You could try a couple things to improve it, but neither of them are common: 1) increase the number of PGs (and pgp_num) a lot more. I you decide to experiment with this, watch your CPU and memory numbers carefully. 2) try to correct for the inequ