[Openstack] [SWIFT] PUTs and GETs getting slower

Hua ZZ Zhang zhuadl at cn.ibm.com
Mon Aug 5 10:01:31 UTC 2013


For the second question, Swift doesn't use  updatedb.mlocate in my mind. it
should be safe to disable it.
Based on the TOP output, it seems that the CPU workload of container
replicator and auditor are too high.
Perhaps you need to tune the config file to decrease their workload. paste
your config file of
container servers.

Best Regards,

                                                                             
 Edward Zhang(张华)                                                          
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             Klaus Schürmann                                               
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                                       [Openstack] [SWIFT] PUTs and GETs   
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Hi,

my Swift cluster is working for three weeks now as a mail storage and the
performance is getting slower and slower.

This is my hardware configuration:

- 1 hardware-loadbalancer
- 2 proxy-server DELL R420 16 GB RAM 2 Quadcore CPU
- 5 proxy-server DELL R720xd 16 GB RAM 2 Quadcore CPU with 3x 2TB HDD SATA
6GB/s

The cluster contains:

279.000 containers
8.170.000 objects = 984 GByte

I have about 3.000.000 GETs per day and 1.500.000 PUTs.

The load is raising up to 12 now:

top - 11:06:39 up 114 days, 23:10,  1 user,  load average: 10.88, 11.26,
11.22
Tasks: 175 total,   3 running, 172 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 15.6 us,  9.8 sy,  0.0 ni, 69.3 id,  4.5 wa,  0.0 hi,  0.8 si,
0.0 st
KiB Mem:  16386408 total, 14829360 used,  1557048 free,    30796 buffers
KiB Swap: 17575932 total,   132604 used, 17443328 free,  5572360 cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S  %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
25880 swift     20   0 81400  15m 3352 D  34.5  0.1
2838:36 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-replicator /etc/swift/container-server.conf

24282 swift     20   0 81084  14m 3244 S  19.2  0.1
3835:23 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-auditor /etc/swift/container-server.conf

29816 swift     20   0 1523m  27m 2032 D   9.6  0.2
1132:58 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

29812 swift     20   0 1523m  27m 2032 R   7.0  0.2
1169:50 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

29815 swift     20   0 1523m  27m 2032 D   6.6  0.2
1132:45 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

29809 swift     20   0 1523m  26m 2032 D   5.6  0.2
1163:53 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

30684 swift     20   0 84496  16m 2468 D   5.6  0.1
1959:57 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

13853 snmp      20   0 51844 3356 1800 S   5.3  0.0
32:14.90 /usr/sbin/snmpd -Lsd -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -g snmp -I -smux
-p /var/run/snmpd.pid
29810 swift     20   0 1523m  27m 2032 D   5.3  0.2
1132:09 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

29813 swift     20   0 1525m  27m 2032 D   5.3  0.2
1177:23 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

29811 swift     20   0 1524m  28m 2032 D   5.0  0.2
1169:37 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

30677 swift     20   0 84932  17m 2468 D   5.0  0.1
1992:49 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

29814 swift     20   0 1524m  27m 2032 D   4.6  0.2
1181:11 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-server /etc/swift/object-server.conf

30681 swift     20   0 84980  17m 2468 S   4.3  0.1
1999:12 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

30678 swift     20   0 84684  17m 2468 D   4.0  0.1
1973:14 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

30682 swift     20   0 84224  16m 2468 S   4.0  0.1
1960:55 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

30685 swift     20   0 84356  16m 2468 D   3.6  0.1
1979:40 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

 7086 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   3.3  0.0   0:00.78 [kworker/6:1]
30683 swift     20   0 84160  16m 2468 S   3.3  0.1
1981:38 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

30679 swift     20   0 83852  16m 2468 S   3.0  0.1
1965:53 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-server /etc/swift/container-server.conf

 5935 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   2.7  0.0   0:16.38 [kworker/2:1]
 6832 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   2.7  0.0   0:02.78 [kworker/4:0]
 7153 swift     20   0 80300 9.8m 2040 D   2.7  0.1
0:00.08 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-updater /etc/swift/container-server.conf

 1840 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   2.3  0.0   0:59.87 [kworker/0:1]
 9630 swift     20   0 75796 6272 1708 D   2.0  0.0
1889:16 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-auditor /etc/swift/object-server.conf

 9656 swift     20   0 87424  17m 2304 S   2.0  0.1
748:29.97 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

 9659 swift     20   0 86908  17m 2304 S   2.0  0.1
803:09.64 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

 9653 swift     20   0 85816  16m 2304 S   1.7  0.1
723:34.42 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

 9654 swift     20   0 87500  17m 2304 R   1.7  0.1
769:23.97 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

 9655 swift     20   0 85956  16m 2408 S   1.7  0.1
783:28.18 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

 9658 swift     20   0 87808  18m 2304 S   1.7  0.1
767:31.82 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

32616 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   1.7  0.0   0:18.13 [kworker/3:0]
 1826 syslog    20   0  243m 5124  856 S   1.3  0.0 329:10.12 rsyslogd -c5
 6944 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   1.3  0.0   0:01.08 [kworker/7:2]
 9652 swift     20   0 86896  17m 2412 S   1.3  0.1
663:32.21 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

 9657 swift     20   0 86016  16m 2408 S   1.3  0.1
706:22.08 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-account-server /etc/swift/account-server.conf

   51 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   1.0  0.0 134:26.37 [kswapd0]
 4548 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   1.0  0.0   0:11.69 [kworker/1:2]
 5362 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   1.0  0.0   0:10.95 [kworker/5:3]
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.7  0.0 604:49.60 [ksoftirqd/0]
   52 root      20   0     0    0    0 S   0.7  0.0  68:32.58 [kswapd1]
 7412 swift     20   0 80300 9704 2780 S   0.7  0.1
566:00.53 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-container-updater /etc/swift/container-server.conf

 9580 swift     20   0 75632 7140 2728 D   0.7  0.0
2218:06 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/swift-object-auditor /etc/swift/object-server.conf

22178 root      20   0  7404  992  700 D   0.7  0.0
20:28.93 /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate

Is this a memory problem or a harddisk problem?

And second question: On the server the mlocate database is rising.  Can I
disable the updatedb.mlocate process and empty the database?

Thanks
Klaus



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