Hi,<div><br></div><div>you mentioned that the arbiter bricks run out of inodes.</div><div>Are you using XFS ?</div><div>Can you provide the xfs_info of each brick ?</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div>Strahil Nikolov <br> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 19:41, Liam Smith</div><div><liam.smith@ek.co> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv8312530085">
 

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We're running a cluster with two data nodes and one arbiter, and have sharding enabled.</div>
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We had an issue a while back where one of the server's crashed, we got the server back up and running and ensured that all healing entries cleared, and also increased the server spec (CPU/Mem) as this seemed to be the potential cause.</div>
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Since then however, we've seen some strange behaviour, whereby a lot of 'remove_me' files are building up under `/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick2/brick/.shard/.remove_me/` and `/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick3/brick/.shard/.remove_me/`. <span style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">This
 is causing the arbiter to run out of space on brick2 and brick3, as the remove_me files are constantly increasing.</span></div>
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brick1 appears to be fine, the disk usage increases throughout the day and drops down in line with the trend of the brick on the data nodes. We see the disk usage increase and drop throughout the day on the data nodes for brick2 and brick3 as well, but while
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This is the output of some gluster commands, occasional heal entries come and go:</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Volume Name: gv1</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Type: Distributed-Replicate</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Volume ID: d3d1fdec-7df9-4f71-b9fc-660d12c2a046</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Status: Started</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Snapshot Count: 0</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of Bricks: 3 x (2 + 1) = 9</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Transport-type: tcp</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick1: uk1-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick1/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick2: uk2-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick1/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick3: uk3-prod-gfs-arb-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick1/brick (arbiter)</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick4: uk1-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick3/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick5: uk2-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick3/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick6: uk3-prod-gfs-arb-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick3/brick (arbiter)</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick7: uk1-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick2/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick8: uk2-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick2/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick9: uk3-prod-gfs-arb-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick2/brick (arbiter)</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Options Reconfigured:</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">cluster.entry-self-heal: on</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">performance.readdir-ahead: off</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">features.shard-block-size: 512MB</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Hostname: uk2-prod-gfs-01</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Uuid: 2fdfa4a2-195d-4cc5-937c-f48466e76149</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Uuid: 43ec93d1-ad83-4103-aea3-80ded0903d88</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk1-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick1/brick</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Status: Connected</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 1</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk2-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick1/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Status: Connected</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 0</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk3-prod-gfs-arb-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick1/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Status: Connected</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 0</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk1-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick3/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Status: Connected</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 0</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk2-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick3/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Status: Connected</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 0</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk3-prod-gfs-arb-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick3/brick</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 0</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk1-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick2/brick</div>
<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Status: Connected</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk2-prod-gfs-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick2/brick</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 3</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Brick uk3-prod-gfs-arb-01:/data/glusterfs/gv1/brick2/brick</div>
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<div class="yiv8312530085ContentPasted4">Number of entries: 3</div>
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We're not sure if this is a potential bug or if something's corrupted that we don't have visibility of, so any pointers/suggestions about how to approach this would be appreciated. </div>
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