======================
 Troubleshooting OSDs
======================

Before troubleshooting the cluster's OSDs, check the monitors
and the network. 

First, determine whether the monitors have a quorum. Run the ``ceph health``
command or the ``ceph -s`` command and if Ceph shows ``HEALTH_OK`` then there
is a monitor quorum. 

If the monitors don't have a quorum or if there are errors with the monitor
status, address the monitor issues before proceeding by consulting the material
in `Troubleshooting Monitors <../troubleshooting-mon>`_.

Next, check your networks to make sure that they are running properly. Networks
can have a significant impact on OSD operation and performance. Look for
dropped packets on the host side and CRC errors on the switch side.


Obtaining Data About OSDs
=========================

When troubleshooting OSDs, it is useful to collect different kinds of
information about the OSDs. Some information comes from the practice of
`monitoring OSDs`_ (for example, by running the ``ceph osd tree`` command).
Additional information concerns the topology of your cluster, and is discussed
in the following sections.


Ceph Logs
---------

Ceph log files are stored under ``/var/log/ceph``. Unless the path has been
changed (or you are in a containerized environment that stores logs in a
different location), the log files can be listed by running the following
command:

.. prompt:: bash

   ls /var/log/ceph

If there is not enough log detail, change the logging level. To ensure that
Ceph performs adequately under high logging volume, see `Logging and
Debugging`_.



Admin Socket
------------

Use the admin socket tool to retrieve runtime information. First, list the
sockets of Ceph's daemons by running the following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   ls /var/run/ceph

Next, run a command of the following form (replacing ``{daemon-name}`` with the
name of a specific daemon: for example, ``osd.0``):

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph daemon {daemon-name} help

Alternatively, run the command with a ``{socket-file}`` specified (a "socket
file" is a specific file in ``/var/run/ceph``):

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph daemon {socket-file} help

The admin socket makes many tasks possible, including:

- Listing Ceph configuration at runtime
- Dumping historic operations
- Dumping the operation priority queue state
- Dumping operations in flight
- Dumping perfcounters

Display Free Space
------------------

Filesystem issues may arise. To display your filesystems' free space, run the
following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   df -h

To see this command's supported syntax and options, run ``df --help``.

I/O Statistics
--------------

The `iostat`_ tool can be used to identify I/O-related issues. Run the
following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   iostat -x


Diagnostic Messages
-------------------

To retrieve diagnostic messages from the kernel, run the ``dmesg`` command and
specify the output with ``less``, ``more``, ``grep``, or ``tail``. For
example: 

.. prompt:: bash

    dmesg | grep scsi

Stopping without Rebalancing
============================

It might be occasionally necessary to perform maintenance on a subset of your
cluster or to resolve a problem that affects a failure domain (for example, a
rack).  However, when you stop OSDs for maintenance, you might want to prevent
CRUSH from automatically rebalancing the cluster. To avert this rebalancing
behavior, set the cluster to ``noout`` by running the following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd set noout

.. warning:: This is more a thought exercise offered for the purpose of giving
   the reader a sense of failure domains and CRUSH behavior than a suggestion
   that anyone in the post-Luminous world run ``ceph osd set noout``. When the
   OSDs return to an ``up`` state, rebalancing will resume and the change
   introduced by the ``ceph osd set noout`` command will be reverted.

In Luminous and later releases, however, it is a safer approach to flag only
affected OSDs.  To add or remove a ``noout`` flag to a specific OSD, run a
command like the following:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd add-noout osd.0
   ceph osd rm-noout  osd.0

It is also possible to flag an entire CRUSH bucket. For example, if you plan to
take down ``prod-ceph-data1701`` in order to add RAM, you might run the
following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd set-group noout prod-ceph-data1701

After the flag is set, stop the OSDs and any other colocated
Ceph services within the failure domain that requires maintenance work::

   systemctl stop ceph\*.service ceph\*.target

.. note:: When an OSD is stopped, any placement groups within the OSD are
   marked as ``degraded``.

After the maintenance is complete, it will be necessary to restart the OSDs
and any other daemons that have stopped. However, if the host was rebooted as
part of the maintenance, they do not need to be restarted and will come back up
automatically. To restart OSDs or other daemons, use a command of the following
form:

.. prompt:: bash

   sudo systemctl start ceph.target

Finally, unset the ``noout`` flag as needed by running commands like the
following:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd unset noout
   ceph osd unset-group noout prod-ceph-data1701

Many contemporary Linux distributions employ ``systemd`` for service
management.  However, for certain operating systems (especially older ones) it
might be necessary to issue equivalent ``service`` or ``start``/``stop``
commands.


.. _osd-not-running:

OSD Not Running
===============

Under normal conditions, restarting a ``ceph-osd`` daemon will allow it to
rejoin the cluster and recover.


An OSD Won't Start
------------------

If the cluster has started but an OSD isn't starting, check the following:

- **Configuration File:** If you were not able to get OSDs running from a new
  installation, check your configuration file to ensure it conforms to the
  standard (for example, make sure that it says ``host`` and not ``hostname``,
  etc.).

- **Check Paths:** Ensure that the paths specified in the configuration
  correspond to the paths for data and metadata that actually exist (for
  example, the paths to the journals, the WAL, and the DB). Separate the OSD
  data from the metadata in order to see whether there are errors in the
  configuration file and in the actual mounts. If so, these errors might
  explain why OSDs are not starting. To store the metadata on a separate block
  device, partition or LVM the drive and assign one partition per OSD.

- **Check Max Threadcount:** If the cluster has a node with an especially high
  number of OSDs, it might be hitting the default maximum number of threads
  (usually 32,000).  This is especially likely to happen during recovery.
  Increasing the maximum number of threads to the maximum possible number of
  threads allowed (4194303) might help with the problem. To increase the number
  of threads to the maximum, run the following command:

  .. prompt:: bash

     sysctl -w kernel.pid_max=4194303

  If this increase resolves the issue, you must make the increase permanent by
  including a ``kernel.pid_max`` setting either in a file under
  ``/etc/sysctl.d`` or within the master ``/etc/sysctl.conf`` file. For
  example::

     kernel.pid_max = 4194303

- **Check ``nf_conntrack``:** This connection-tracking and connection-limiting
  system causes problems for many production Ceph clusters. The problems often
  emerge slowly and subtly. As cluster topology and client workload grow,
  mysterious and intermittent connection failures and performance glitches
  occur more and more, especially at certain times of the day. To begin taking
  the measure of your problem, check the ``syslog`` history for "table full"
  events. One way to address this kind of problem is as follows: First, use the
  ``sysctl`` utility to assign ``nf_conntrack_max`` a much higher value. Next,
  raise the value of ``nf_conntrack_buckets`` so that ``nf_conntrack_buckets``
  × 8 = ``nf_conntrack_max``; this action might require running commands
  outside of ``sysctl`` (for example, ``"echo 131072 >
  /sys/module/nf_conntrack/parameters/hashsize``). Another way to address the
  problem is to blacklist the associated kernel modules in order to disable
  processing altogether. This approach is powerful, but fragile. The modules
  and the order in which the modules must be listed can vary among kernel
  versions. Even when blacklisted, ``iptables`` and ``docker`` might sometimes
  activate connection tracking anyway, so we advise a "set and forget" strategy
  for the tunables. On modern systems, this approach will not consume
  appreciable resources.

- **Kernel Version:** Identify the kernel version and distribution that are in
  use. By default, Ceph uses third-party tools that might be buggy or come into
  conflict with certain distributions or kernel versions (for example, Google's
  ``gperftools`` and ``TCMalloc``). Check the `OS recommendations`_ and the
  release notes for each Ceph version in order to make sure that you have
  addressed any issues related to your kernel.

- **Segment Fault:** If there is a segment fault, increase log levels and
  restart the problematic daemon(s). If segment faults recur, search the Ceph
  bug tracker `https://tracker.ceph/com/projects/ceph
  <https://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph/>`_ and the ``dev`` and
  ``ceph-users`` mailing list archives `https://ceph.io/resources
  <https://ceph.io/resources>`_ to see if others have experienced and reported
  these issues. If this truly is a new and unique failure, post to the ``dev``
  email list and provide the following information: the specific Ceph release
  being run, ``ceph.conf`` (with secrets XXX'd out), your monitor status
  output, and excerpts from your log file(s).


An OSD Failed
-------------

When an OSD fails, this means that a ``ceph-osd`` process is unresponsive or
has died and that the corresponding OSD has been marked ``down``. Surviving
``ceph-osd`` daemons will report to the monitors that the OSD appears to be
down, and a new status will be visible in the output of the ``ceph health``
command, as in the following example:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph health

::

   HEALTH_WARN 1/3 in osds are down

This health alert is raised whenever there are one or more OSDs marked ``in``
and ``down``. To see which OSDs are ``down``, add ``detail`` to the command as in
the following example:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph health detail

::

   HEALTH_WARN 1/3 in osds are down
   osd.0 is down since epoch 23, last address 192.168.106.220:6800/11080

Alternatively, run the following command:

.. prompt:: bash

    ceph osd tree down

If there is a drive failure or another fault that is preventing a given
``ceph-osd`` daemon from functioning or restarting, then there should be an
error message present in its log file under ``/var/log/ceph``.

If the ``ceph-osd`` daemon stopped because of a heartbeat failure or a
``suicide timeout`` error, then the underlying drive or filesystem might be
unresponsive. Check ``dmesg`` output and `syslog`  output for drive errors or
kernel errors. It might be necessary to specify certain flags (for example,
``dmesg -T`` to see human-readable timestamps) in order to avoid mistaking old
errors for new errors.

If an entire host's OSDs are ``down``, check to see if there is a network
error or a hardware issue with the host.

If the OSD problem is the result of a software error (for example, a failed
assertion or another unexpected error), search for reports of the issue in the
`bug tracker <https://tracker.ceph/com/projects/ceph>`_ , the `dev mailing list
archives <https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/dev@ceph.io/>`_, and the
`ceph-users mailing list archives
<https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/ceph-users@ceph.io/>`_.  If there is no
clear fix or existing bug, then :ref:`report the problem to the ceph-devel
email list <Get Involved>`.


.. _no-free-drive-space:

No Free Drive Space
-------------------

If an OSD is full, Ceph prevents data loss by ensuring that no new data is
written to the OSD. In an properly running cluster, health checks are raised
when the cluster's OSDs and pools approach certain "fullness" ratios. The
``mon_osd_full_ratio`` threshold defaults to ``0.95`` (or 95% of capacity):
this is the point above which clients are prevented from writing data. The
``mon_osd_backfillfull_ratio`` threshold defaults to ``0.90`` (or 90% of
capacity): this is the point above which backfills will not start. The
``mon_osd_nearfull_ratio`` threshold defaults to ``0.85`` (or 85% of capacity):
this is the point at which it raises the ``OSD_NEARFULL`` health check.

OSDs within a cluster will vary in how much data is allocated to them by Ceph.
To check "fullness" by displaying data utilization for every OSD, run the
following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd df

To check "fullness" by displaying a cluster’s overall data usage and data
distribution among pools, run the following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph df 

When examining the output of the ``ceph df`` command, pay special attention to
the **most full** OSDs, as opposed to the percentage of raw space used. If a
single outlier OSD becomes full, all writes to this OSD's pool might fail as a
result. When ``ceph df`` reports the space available to a pool, it considers
the ratio settings relative to the *most full* OSD that is part of the pool. To
flatten the distribution, two approaches are available: (1) Using the
``reweight-by-utilization`` command to progressively move data from excessively
full OSDs or move data to insufficiently full OSDs, and (2) in later revisions
of Luminous and subsequent releases, exploiting the ``ceph-mgr`` ``balancer``
module to perform the same task automatically.

To adjust the "fullness" ratios, run a command or commands of the following
form:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd set-nearfull-ratio <float[0.0-1.0]>
   ceph osd set-full-ratio <float[0.0-1.0]>
   ceph osd set-backfillfull-ratio <float[0.0-1.0]>

Sometimes full cluster issues arise because an OSD has failed. This can happen
either because of a test or because the cluster is small, very full, or
unbalanced. When an OSD or node holds an excessive percentage of the cluster's
data, component failures or natural growth can result in the ``nearfull`` and
``full`` ratios being exceeded.  When testing Ceph's resilience to OSD failures
on a small cluster, it is advised to leave ample free disk space and to
consider temporarily lowering the OSD ``full ratio``, OSD ``backfillfull
ratio``, and OSD ``nearfull ratio``.

The "fullness" status of OSDs is visible in the output of the ``ceph health``
command, as in the following example:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph health

::

  HEALTH_WARN 1 nearfull osd(s)

For details, add the ``detail`` command as in the following example:

.. prompt:: bash

    ceph health detail

::

    HEALTH_ERR 1 full osd(s); 1 backfillfull osd(s); 1 nearfull osd(s)
    osd.3 is full at 97%
    osd.4 is backfill full at 91%
    osd.2 is near full at 87%

To address full cluster issues, it is recommended to add capacity by adding
OSDs. Adding new OSDs allows the cluster to redistribute data to newly
available storage. Search for ``rados bench`` orphans that are wasting space.

If a legacy Filestore OSD cannot be started because it is full, it is possible
to reclaim space by deleting a small number of placement group directories in
the full OSD.

.. important:: If you choose to delete a placement group directory on a full
   OSD, **DO NOT** delete the same placement group directory on another full
   OSD. **OTHERWISE YOU WILL LOSE DATA**. You **MUST** maintain at least one
   copy of your data on at least one OSD. Deleting placement group directories
   is a rare and extreme intervention. It is not to be undertaken lightly.

See `Monitor Config Reference`_ for more information.


OSDs are Slow/Unresponsive
==========================

OSDs are sometimes slow or unresponsive. When troubleshooting this common
problem, it is advised to eliminate other possibilities before investigating
OSD performance issues. For example, be sure to confirm that your network(s)
are working properly, to verify that your OSDs are running, and to check
whether OSDs are throttling recovery traffic.

.. tip:: In pre-Luminous releases of Ceph, ``up`` and ``in`` OSDs were
   sometimes not available or were otherwise slow because recovering OSDs were
   consuming system resources. Newer releases provide better recovery handling
   by preventing this phenomenon.


Networking Issues
-----------------

As a distributed storage system, Ceph relies upon networks for OSD peering and
replication, recovery from faults, and periodic heartbeats. Networking issues
can cause OSD latency and flapping OSDs. For more information, see `Flapping
OSDs`_.

To make sure that Ceph processes and Ceph-dependent processes are connected and
listening, run the following commands:

.. prompt:: bash

   netstat -a | grep ceph
   netstat -l | grep ceph
   sudo netstat -p | grep ceph

To check network statistics, run the following command:

.. prompt:: bash

   netstat -s

Drive Configuration
-------------------

An SAS or SATA storage drive should house only one OSD, but a NVMe drive can
easily house two or more. However, it is possible for read and write throughput
to bottleneck if other processes share the drive. Such processes include:
journals / metadata, operating systems, Ceph monitors, ``syslog`` logs, other
OSDs, and non-Ceph processes.

Because Ceph acknowledges writes *after* journaling, fast SSDs are an
attractive option for accelerating response time -- particularly when using the
``XFS`` or ``ext4`` filesystems for legacy FileStore OSDs.  By contrast, the
``Btrfs`` file system can write and journal simultaneously. (However, use of
``Btrfs`` is not recommended for production deployments.)

.. note:: Partitioning a drive does not change its total throughput or
   sequential read/write limits. Throughput might be improved somewhat by
   running a journal in a separate partition, but it is better still to run
   such a journal in a separate physical drive.
   
.. warning:: Reef does not support FileStore. Releases after Reef do not
   support FileStore. Any information that mentions FileStore is pertinent only
   to the Quincy release of Ceph and to releases prior to Quincy.


Bad Sectors / Fragmented Disk
-----------------------------

Check your drives for bad blocks, fragmentation, and other errors that can
cause significantly degraded performance. Tools that are useful in checking for
drive errors include ``dmesg``, ``syslog`` logs, and ``smartctl`` (found in the
``smartmontools`` package).

.. note:: ``smartmontools`` 7.0 and late provides NVMe stat passthrough and
   JSON output.


Co-resident Monitors/OSDs
-------------------------

Although monitors are relatively lightweight processes, performance issues can
result when monitors are run on the same host machine as an OSD. Monitors issue
many ``fsync()`` calls and this can interfere with other workloads. The danger
of performance issues is especially acute when the monitors are co-resident on
the same storage drive as an OSD. In addition, if the monitors are running an
older kernel (pre-3.0) or a kernel with no ``syncfs(2)`` syscall, then multiple
OSDs running on the same host might make so many commits as to undermine each
other's performance.  This problem sometimes results in what is called "the
bursty writes".


Co-resident Processes
---------------------

Significant OSD latency can result from processes that write data to Ceph (for
example, cloud-based solutions and virtual machines) while operating on the
same hardware as OSDs. For this reason, making such processes co-resident with
OSDs is not generally recommended. Instead, the recommended practice is to
optimize certain hosts for use with Ceph and use other hosts for other
processes. This practice of separating Ceph operations from other applications
might help improve performance and might also streamline troubleshooting and
maintenance.

Running co-resident processes on the same hardware is sometimes called
"convergence". When using Ceph, engage in convergence only with expertise and
after consideration.


Logging Levels
--------------

Performance issues can result from high logging levels. Operators sometimes
raise logging levels in order to track an issue and then forget to lower them
afterwards. In such a situation, OSDs might consume valuable system resources to
write needlessly verbose logs onto the disk. Anyone who does want to use high logging
levels is advised to consider mounting a drive to the default path for logging
(for example, ``/var/log/ceph/$cluster-$name.log``).

Recovery Throttling
-------------------

Depending upon your configuration, Ceph may reduce recovery rates to maintain
client or OSD performance, or it may increase recovery rates to the point that
recovery impacts client or OSD performance. Check to see if the client or OSD
is recovering.


Kernel Version
--------------

Check the kernel version that you are running. Older kernels may lack updates
that improve Ceph performance. 


Kernel Issues with SyncFS
-------------------------

If you have kernel issues with SyncFS, try running one OSD per host to see if
performance improves. Old kernels might not have a recent enough version of
``glibc`` to support ``syncfs(2)``.


Filesystem Issues
-----------------

In post-Luminous releases, we recommend deploying clusters with the BlueStore
back end.  When running a pre-Luminous release, or if you have a specific
reason to deploy OSDs with the previous Filestore backend, we recommend
``XFS``.

We recommend against using ``Btrfs`` or ``ext4``.  The ``Btrfs`` filesystem has
many attractive features, but bugs may lead to performance issues and spurious
ENOSPC errors.  We do not recommend ``ext4`` for Filestore OSDs because
``xattr`` limitations break support for long object names, which are needed for
RGW.

For more information, see `Filesystem Recommendations`_.

.. _Filesystem Recommendations: ../configuration/filesystem-recommendations

Insufficient RAM
----------------

We recommend a *minimum* of 4GB of RAM per OSD daemon and we suggest rounding
up from 6GB to 8GB. During normal operations, you may notice that ``ceph-osd``
processes use only a fraction of that amount.  You might be tempted to use the
excess RAM for co-resident applications or to skimp on each node's memory
capacity. However, when OSDs experience recovery their memory utilization
spikes. If there is insufficient RAM available during recovery, OSD performance
will slow considerably and the daemons may even crash or be killed by the Linux
``OOM Killer``.


Blocked Requests or Slow Requests
---------------------------------

When a ``ceph-osd`` daemon is slow to respond to a request, the cluster log
receives messages reporting ops that are taking too long. The warning threshold
defaults to 30 seconds and is configurable via the ``osd_op_complaint_time``
setting.

Legacy versions of Ceph complain about ``old requests``::

    osd.0 192.168.106.220:6800/18813 312 : [WRN] old request osd_op(client.5099.0:790 fatty_26485_object789 [write 0~4096] 2.5e54f643) v4 received at 2012-03-06 15:42:56.054801 currently waiting for sub ops

Newer versions of Ceph complain about ``slow requests``::

    {date} {osd.num} [WRN] 1 slow requests, 1 included below; oldest blocked for > 30.005692 secs
    {date} {osd.num}  [WRN] slow request 30.005692 seconds old, received at {date-time}: osd_op(client.4240.0:8 benchmark_data_ceph-1_39426_object7 [write 0~4194304] 0.69848840) v4 currently waiting for subops from [610]

Possible causes include:

- A failing drive (check ``dmesg`` output)
- A bug in the kernel file system (check ``dmesg`` output)
- An overloaded cluster (check system load, iostat, etc.)
- A bug in the ``ceph-osd`` daemon.

Possible solutions:

- Remove VMs from Ceph hosts
- Upgrade kernel
- Upgrade Ceph
- Restart OSDs
- Replace failed or failing components

Debugging Slow Requests
-----------------------

If you run ``ceph daemon osd.<id> dump_historic_ops`` or ``ceph daemon osd.<id>
dump_ops_in_flight``, you will see a set of operations and a list of events
each operation went through. These are briefly described below.

Events from the Messenger layer:

- ``header_read``: The time that the messenger first started reading the message off the wire.
- ``throttled``: The time that the messenger tried to acquire memory throttle space to read
  the message into memory.
- ``all_read``: The time that the messenger finished reading the message off the wire.
- ``dispatched``: The time that the messenger gave the message to the OSD.
- ``initiated``: This is identical to ``header_read``. The existence of both is a
  historical oddity.

Events from the OSD as it processes ops:

- ``queued_for_pg``: The op has been put into the queue for processing by its PG.
- ``reached_pg``: The PG has started performing the op.
- ``waiting for \*``: The op is waiting for some other work to complete before
  it can proceed (for example, a new OSDMap; the scrubbing of its object
  target; the completion of a PG's peering; all as specified in the message).
- ``started``: The op has been accepted as something the OSD should do and 
  is now being performed.
- ``waiting for subops from``: The op has been sent to replica OSDs.

Events from ```Filestore```:

- ``commit_queued_for_journal_write``: The op has been given to the FileStore.
- ``write_thread_in_journal_buffer``: The op is in the journal's buffer and is waiting
  to be persisted (as the next disk write).
- ``journaled_completion_queued``: The op was journaled to disk and its callback
  has been queued for invocation.

Events from the OSD after data has been given to underlying storage:

- ``op_commit``: The op has been committed (that is, written to journal) by the
  primary OSD.
- ``op_applied``: The op has been `write()'en
  <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?write(2)>`_ to the backing FS (that is,
  applied in memory but not flushed out to disk) on the primary.
- ``sub_op_applied``: ``op_applied``, but for a replica's "subop".
- ``sub_op_committed``: ``op_commit``, but for a replica's subop (only for EC pools).
- ``sub_op_commit_rec/sub_op_apply_rec from <X>``: The primary marks this when it
  hears about the above, but for a particular replica (i.e. ``<X>``).
- ``commit_sent``: We sent a reply back to the client (or primary OSD, for sub ops).

Some of these events may appear redundant, but they cross important boundaries
in the internal code (such as passing data across locks into new threads).


Flapping OSDs
=============

"Flapping" is the term for the phenomenon of an OSD being repeatedly marked
``up`` and then ``down`` in rapid succession.  This section explains how to
recognize flapping, and how to mitigate it.

When OSDs peer and check heartbeats, they use the cluster (back-end) network
when it is available. See `Monitor/OSD Interaction`_ for details.

The upstream Ceph community has traditionally recommended separate *public*
(front-end) and *private* (cluster / back-end / replication) networks. This
provides the following benefits:

#. Segregation of (1) heartbeat traffic and replication/recovery traffic
   (private) from (2) traffic from clients and between OSDs and monitors
   (public). This helps keep one stream of traffic from DoS-ing the other,
   which could in turn result in a cascading failure.

#. Additional throughput for both public and private traffic.

In the past, when common networking technologies were measured in a range
encompassing 100Mb/s and 1Gb/s, this separation was often critical. But with
today's 10Gb/s, 40Gb/s, and 25/50/100Gb/s networks, the above capacity concerns
are often diminished or even obviated.  For example, if your OSD nodes have two
network ports, dedicating one to the public and the other to the private
network means that you have no path redundancy.  This degrades your ability to
endure network maintenance and network failures without significant cluster or
client impact. In situations like this, consider instead using both links for
only a public network: with bonding (LACP) or equal-cost routing (for example,
FRR) you reap the benefits of increased throughput headroom, fault tolerance,
and reduced OSD flapping.

When a private network (or even a single host link) fails or degrades while the
public network continues operating normally, OSDs may not handle this situation
well. In such situations, OSDs use the public network to report each other
``down`` to the monitors, while marking themselves ``up``. The monitors then
send out-- again on the public network--an updated cluster map with the
affected OSDs marked `down`. These OSDs reply to the monitors "I'm not dead
yet!", and the cycle repeats. We call this scenario 'flapping`, and it can be
difficult to isolate and remediate. Without a private network, this irksome
dynamic is avoided: OSDs are generally either ``up`` or ``down`` without
flapping.

If something does cause OSDs to 'flap' (repeatedly being marked ``down`` and
then ``up`` again), you can force the monitors to halt the flapping by
temporarily freezing their states:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd set noup      # prevent OSDs from getting marked up
   ceph osd set nodown    # prevent OSDs from getting marked down

These flags are recorded in the osdmap:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd dump | grep flags

::

   flags no-up,no-down

You can clear these flags with:

.. prompt:: bash

   ceph osd unset noup
   ceph osd unset nodown

Two other flags are available, ``noin`` and ``noout``, which prevent booting
OSDs from being marked ``in`` (allocated data) or protect OSDs from eventually
being marked ``out`` (regardless of the current value of
``mon_osd_down_out_interval``).

.. note:: ``noup``, ``noout``, and ``nodown`` are temporary in the sense that
   after the flags are cleared, the action that they were blocking should be
   possible shortly thereafter. But the ``noin`` flag prevents OSDs from being
   marked ``in`` on boot, and any daemons that started while the flag was set
   will remain that way.

.. note:: The causes and effects of flapping can be mitigated somewhat by
   making careful adjustments to ``mon_osd_down_out_subtree_limit``,
   ``mon_osd_reporter_subtree_level``, and ``mon_osd_min_down_reporters``.
   Derivation of optimal settings depends on cluster size, topology, and the
   Ceph release in use. The interaction of all of these factors is subtle and
   is beyond the scope of this document.


.. _iostat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iostat
.. _Ceph Logging and Debugging: ../../configuration/ceph-conf#ceph-logging-and-debugging
.. _Logging and Debugging: ../log-and-debug
.. _Debugging and Logging: ../debug
.. _Monitor/OSD Interaction: ../../configuration/mon-osd-interaction
.. _Monitor Config Reference: ../../configuration/mon-config-ref
.. _monitoring your OSDs: ../../operations/monitoring-osd-pg

.. _monitoring OSDs: ../../operations/monitoring-osd-pg/#monitoring-osds

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.. _OS recommendations: ../../../start/os-recommendations
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