[ceph-users] Workaround for XFS lockup resulting in down OSDs

2017-02-07 Thread Thorvald Natvig
Hi, We've encountered a small "kernel feature" in XFS using Filestore. We have a workaround, and would like to share in case others have the same problem. Under high load, on slow storage, with lots of dirty buffers and low memory, there's a design choice with unfortunate side-effects if you have

Re: [ceph-users] Workaround for XFS lockup resulting in down OSDs

2017-02-08 Thread Thorvald Natvig
erted to Kernel 4.4 (from Ubuntu) the problem stopped > immediately. > > Nick > >> -Original Message- >> From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Dan >> van der Ster >> Sent: 08 February 2017 11:08 >> To: Thorvald Nat

Re: [ceph-users] Workaround for XFS lockup resulting in down OSDs

2017-02-08 Thread Thorvald Natvig
ll us your cluster environment a bit more in > detail, it would be also helpful. > >> >> Also, which kernel are you using? >> >> Cheers, Dan >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Thorvald Natvig >> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> &