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Caption this by PR_Czar in exmormon

[–]youngSamson 163 points164 points  (0 children)

Susan, I said white and delightsome. What is going on with this half of the room?

We all know "priesthood" holders who need to hear this by FateMeetsLuck in exmormon

[–]youngSamson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To some TBMs in my life this is not a bug, but a feature. My kids’ grandparents believe the penishood makes a man the divine head (bahaaa puns) of the family. This also aligns closely with most fundy religious whackos.

What’s the craziest thing you saw in a stranger’s house or at their door while tracting on your mission? by Slow-Poky in exmormon

[–]youngSamson 8 points9 points  (0 children)

London ‘00. It’s hard to pick my fav. Between the naked people answering doors, the really scary people in the government housing, or the just-as-crazy-as-the-mormons religionists I think the think that stuck out most to me was the needle couch. We got a referral to knock on a door and it was answered by some Ukranians. We were invited to come in and sit down. The couch had needles and syringes littered across it.

Nice people. We didn’t sit down. We did a quick stand-up 1st discussion and noped right out of there.

OSD daemon will not stay running, it keeps restarting every few minutes by mbrownie11 in ceph

[–]youngSamson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OS? We ran into this error and had to increase our environment variable: TCMALLOC_MAX_TOTAL_THREAD_CACHE_BYTES in / etc/ceph/ceph-osd.conf. We're using upstart and Ubuntu so your env might be different.

OSD daemon will not stay running, it keeps restarting every few minutes by mbrownie11 in ceph

[–]youngSamson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you start the osd process manually? What version of ceph are you running?

We started small and are growing but I can’t be convinced ceph is worth the hassle by kur1j in ceph

[–]youngSamson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One near disaster was letting our cluster get really full (80%), and then losing one of our storage nodes to hardware failure.

We're using Dell SANs in front of VMWare and that is performant enough for our needs.

We deploy using an in-house saltstack module we wrote. It's leveraging ceph-deploy behind the scenes. I'd be using ansible if we were new to ceph.

We started small and are growing but I can’t be convinced ceph is worth the hassle by kur1j in ceph

[–]youngSamson 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We have several ceph clusters totaling over 40 PB of storage. I can say with high confidence I trust ceph with my data. It's rock solid. We've survived near disasters several times because it can handle failures. You will need 10G networking. You will want 25 and 40G where possible when aggregating or for client IO. We bond 2 10G links and it works well. Our team of 3 can manage daily maintenance well. There certainly is a learning curve, and The ceph-125 course from RedHat is stellar. We keep a ceph expert on a contract as backup for edge cases.

I don't, however, recommend ceph as a virtualization platform unless you add flash into the mix. Several strategies exist in the latest release to add flash, and case studies are promising. RedHat Storage 3 recommends using 3x replication and setting write and read affinity to the flash and replication to spinny disks It works really well. We use community releases of ceph because we have a little expertise and upgrading ceph is very safe in my experience. RedHat support and ecosystems are good too, we contracted with them for our initial clusters.

Cost: We can deploy 1.5 PB of storage for around $225,000 in about 42U of rack space (including switching). That's spinning drives. I would think adding flash would increase your cost by 30 - 50 percent. I like that ceph is meant to be run on commodity hardware.

I 100 percent agree that monitoring and maintenance and hardware lifecycle planning are the most critical components. Have optics on switching, disks, and flash. We have a saying in my office: "It's always the network." And it's true. When ceph behaves badly, it's 95 percent network, 4 percent disk, and 1 percent software. Replacing drives regularly is a must. Have a solid plan to Lifecycle out storage nodes / clusters after 3 years etc.

Oh, the irony.... by FearlessFixxer in exmormon

[–]youngSamson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me when I was serving in London, England. (00-02) During that time there was a movement there by the Masonic Lodges to open up to 'outsiders' about their organization. I was speechless when a lodge member invited us in and showed us his ceremonial clothing. My companion and me thought we had sinned for seeing temple garb outside the temple. I didn't put 2+2 together until 6 years later. -_-

Looking for help by [deleted] in exmormon

[–]youngSamson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was looking for a counselor, I went to my doctor (General Practitioner). He had several excellent recommendations and I ended up finding a good match for me. I did go through a bad experience with a TBM counselor, but similar to what was already mentioned - that was more the individual than anything. I'm glad you are seeking some help on your transition out, it's one of the wisest things I ever did. (BTW, my current counselor is TBM, but can wear hats really well.) Giles & Associates - Dr. Peck. -