[Gluster-users] gluster volume rebalance making things more unbalanced

[Strahil Nikolov]

Hi Pat,

I checked https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Managing%20Volumes/#rebalancing-volumes and indeed that is possible to affect your performance.

What is your current status ? Did you run a new rebalance ?

Best Regards,
Strahil Nikolov






В четвъртък, 27 август 2020 г., 17:47:01 Гринуич+3, Pat Haley <phaley at mit.edu> написа: 









Hi Strahil


The documentation I looked at:

    * https://docs.google.com/document/d/18iGX6I7I0yHUZ1zAfLIEnXDRPkIoMh6CHmwyyb6J4GM/edit#heading=h.oogvisuwd2qd

suggested that not using force might leave some links behind that could affect performance

Thanks

Pat




On 8/27/20 10:43 AM, Strahil Nikolov wrote:


>  Sadly I have no idea why rebalance did that , so you should check the logs on all nodes for clues.
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> We have distributed gluster volume spread across 4 bricks.  Yesterday I noticed that the remaining space was uneven (about 2.7TB, 1.7TB, 1TB, 1TB) so I issued the following rebalance command
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> Today I see that instead, things have gotten even more unbalanced (64G 853G 6.2T 20K).  I'm killing the rebalance now.  What should I do to make sure that I get a successful rebalance?
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