[Gluster-users] Rebalance taking > 2 months

[Nithya Balachandran]

If possible, please send the rebalance logs as well.

On 16 July 2018 at 10:14, Nithya Balachandran <nbalacha at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Rusty,
>
> We need the following information:
>
>    1. The exact gluster version you are running
>    2. gluster volume info <volname>
>    3. gluster rebalance status
>    4. Information on the directory structure and file locations on your
>    volume.
>    5. How many levels of directories
>    6. How many files and directories in each level
>    7. How many directories and files in total (a rough estimate)
>    8. Average file size
>
> Please note that having a rebalance running in the background should not
> affect your volume access in any way. However I would like to know why only
> 6000 files have been scanned in 6 hours.
>
> Regards,
> Nithya
>
>
> On 16 July 2018 at 06:13, Rusty Bower <rusty at rustybower.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I just added a new brick to my existing gluster volume, but *gluster
>> volume rebalance data status* is telling me the following: Estimated
>> time left for rebalance to complete : > 2 months. Please try again later.
>>
>> I already did a fix-mapping, but this thing is absolutely crawling trying
>> to rebalance everything (last estimate was ~40 years)
>>
>> Any thoughts on if this is a bug, or ways to speed this up? It's taking
>> ~6 hours to scan 6000 files, which seems unreasonably slow.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Rusty
>>
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