Account Server Configuration

This document describes the configuration options available for the account server. Documentation for other swift configuration options can be found at Configuration Documentation.

An example Account Server configuration can be found at etc/account-server.conf-sample in the source code repository.

The following configuration sections are available:

[DEFAULT]

Option

Default

Description

swift_dir

/etc/swift

Swift configuration directory

devices

/srv/node

Parent directory or where devices are mounted

mount_check

true

Whether or not check if the devices are mounted to prevent accidentally writing to the root device

bind_ip

0.0.0.0

IP Address for server to bind to

bind_port

6202

Port for server to bind to

keep_idle

600

Value to set for socket TCP_KEEPIDLE

bind_timeout

30

Seconds to attempt bind before giving up

backlog

4096

Maximum number of allowed pending connections

workers

auto

Override the number of pre-forked workers that will accept connections. If set it should be an integer, zero means no fork. If unset, it will try to default to the number of effective cpu cores and fallback to one. Increasing the number of workers may reduce the possibility of slow file system operations in one request from negatively impacting other requests. See General Service Tuning.

max_clients

1024

Maximum number of clients one worker can process simultaneously (it will actually accept(2) N + 1). Setting this to one (1) will only handle one request at a time, without accepting another request concurrently.

user

swift

User to run as

db_preallocation

off

If you don’t mind the extra disk space usage in overhead, you can turn this on to preallocate disk space with SQLite databases to decrease fragmentation.

disable_fallocate

false

Disable “fast fail” fallocate checks if the underlying filesystem does not support it.

log_name

swift

Label used when logging

log_facility

LOG_LOCAL0

Syslog log facility

log_level

INFO

Logging level

log_address

/dev/log

Logging directory

log_max_line_length

0

Caps the length of log lines to the value given; no limit if set to 0, the default.

log_custom_handlers

None

Comma-separated list of functions to call to setup custom log handlers.

log_udp_host

Override log_address

log_udp_port

514

UDP log port

log_statsd_host

None

Enables StatsD logging; IPv4/IPv6 address or a hostname. If a hostname resolves to an IPv4 and IPv6 address, the IPv4 address will be used.

log_statsd_port

8125

log_statsd_default_sample_rate

1.0

log_statsd_sample_rate_factor

1.0

log_statsd_metric_prefix

eventlet_debug

false

If true, turn on debug logging for eventlet

fallocate_reserve

1%

You can set fallocate_reserve to the number of bytes or percentage of disk space you’d like fallocate to reserve, whether there is space for the given file size or not. Percentage will be used if the value ends with a ‘%’. This is useful for systems that behave badly when they completely run out of space; you can make the services pretend they’re out of space early.

nice_priority

None

Scheduling priority of server processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process). The default does not modify priority.

ionice_class

None

I/O scheduling class of server processes. I/O niceness class values are IOPRIO_CLASS_RT (realtime), IOPRIO_CLASS_BE (best-effort), and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE (idle). The default does not modify class and priority. Linux supports io scheduling priorities and classes since 2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler. Work only with ionice_priority.

ionice_priority

None

I/O scheduling priority of server processes. I/O niceness priority is a number which goes from 0 to 7. The higher the value, the lower the I/O priority of the process. Work only with ionice_class. Ignored if IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE is set.

[account-server]

Option

Default

Description

use

Entry point for paste.deploy for the account server. For most cases, this should be egg:swift#account.

set log_name

account-server

Label used when logging

set log_facility

LOG_LOCAL0

Syslog log facility

set log_level

INFO

Logging level

set log_requests

True

Whether or not to log each request

set log_address

/dev/log

Logging directory

replication_server

Configure parameter for creating specific server. To handle all verbs, including replication verbs, do not specify “replication_server” (this is the default). To only handle replication, set to a True value (e.g. “True” or “1”). To handle only non-replication verbs, set to “False”. Unless you have a separate replication network, you should not specify any value for “replication_server”.

nice_priority

None

Scheduling priority of server processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process). The default does not modify priority.

ionice_class

None

I/O scheduling class of server processes. I/O niceness class values are IOPRIO_CLASS_RT (realtime), IOPRIO_CLASS_BE (best-effort), and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE (idle). The default does not modify class and priority. Linux supports io scheduling priorities and classes since 2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler. Work only with ionice_priority.

ionice_priority

None

I/O scheduling priority of server processes. I/O niceness priority is a number which goes from 0 to 7. The higher the value, the lower the I/O priority of the process. Work only with ionice_class. Ignored if IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE is set.

[account-replicator]

Option

Default

Description

log_name

account-replicator

Label used when logging

log_facility

LOG_LOCAL0

Syslog log facility

log_level

INFO

Logging level

log_address

/dev/log

Logging directory

per_diff

1000

Maximum number of database rows that will be sync’d in a single HTTP replication request. Databases with less than or equal to this number of differing rows will always be sync’d using an HTTP replication request rather than using rsync.

max_diffs

100

Maximum number of HTTP replication requests attempted on each replication pass for any one container. This caps how long the replicator will spend trying to sync a given database per pass so the other databases don’t get starved.

concurrency

8

Number of replication workers to spawn

interval

30

Time in seconds to wait between replication passes

databases_per_second

50

Maximum databases to process per second. Should be tuned according to individual system specs. 0 is unlimited.

node_timeout

10

Request timeout to external services

conn_timeout

0.5

Connection timeout to external services

reclaim_age

604800

Time elapsed in seconds before an account can be reclaimed

rsync_module

{replication_ip}::account

Format of the rsync module where the replicator will send data. The configuration value can include some variables that will be extracted from the ring. Variables must follow the format {NAME} where NAME is one of: ip, port, replication_ip, replication_port, region, zone, device, meta. See etc/rsyncd.conf-sample for some examples.

rsync_compress

no

Allow rsync to compress data which is transmitted to destination node during sync. However, this is applicable only when destination node is in a different region than the local one. NOTE: Objects that are already compressed (for example: .tar.gz, mp3) might slow down the syncing process.

recon_cache_path

/var/cache/swift

Path to recon cache

nice_priority

None

Scheduling priority of server processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process). The default does not modify priority.

ionice_class

None

I/O scheduling class of server processes. I/O niceness class values are IOPRIO_CLASS_RT (realtime), IOPRIO_CLASS_BE (best-effort), and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE (idle). The default does not modify class and priority. Linux supports io scheduling priorities and classes since 2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler. Work only with ionice_priority.

ionice_priority

None

I/O scheduling priority of server processes. I/O niceness priority is a number which goes from 0 to 7. The higher the value, the lower the I/O priority of the process. Work only with ionice_class. Ignored if IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE is set.

[account-auditor]

Option

Default

Description

log_name

account-auditor

Label used when logging

log_facility

LOG_LOCAL0

Syslog log facility

log_level

INFO

Logging level

log_address

/dev/log

Logging directory

interval

1800

Minimum time for a pass to take

accounts_per_second

200

Maximum accounts audited per second. Should be tuned according to individual system specs. 0 is unlimited.

recon_cache_path

/var/cache/swift

Path to recon cache

nice_priority

None

Scheduling priority of server processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process). The default does not modify priority.

ionice_class

None

I/O scheduling class of server processes. I/O niceness class values are IOPRIO_CLASS_RT (realtime), IOPRIO_CLASS_BE (best-effort), and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE (idle). The default does not modify class and priority. Linux supports io scheduling priorities and classes since 2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler. Work only with ionice_priority.

ionice_priority

None

I/O scheduling priority of server processes. I/O niceness priority is a number which goes from 0 to 7. The higher the value, the lower the I/O priority of the process. Work only with ionice_class. Ignored if IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE is set.

[account-reaper]

Option

Default

Description

log_name

account-reaper

Label used when logging

log_facility

LOG_LOCAL0

Syslog log facility

log_level

INFO

Logging level

log_address

/dev/log

Logging directory

concurrency

25

Number of replication workers to spawn

interval

3600

Minimum time for a pass to take

node_timeout

10

Request timeout to external services

conn_timeout

0.5

Connection timeout to external services

delay_reaping

0

Normally, the reaper begins deleting account information for deleted accounts immediately; you can set this to delay its work however. The value is in seconds, 2592000 = 30 days, for example. The sum of this value and the container-updater interval should be less than the account-replicator reclaim_age. This ensures that once the account-reaper has deleted a container there is sufficient time for the container-updater to report to the account before the account DB is removed.

reap_warn_after

2892000

If the account fails to be reaped due to a persistent error, the account reaper will log a message such as: Account <name> has not been reaped since <date> You can search logs for this message if space is not being reclaimed after you delete account(s). This is in addition to any time requested by delay_reaping.

nice_priority

None

Scheduling priority of server processes. Niceness values range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable to the process). The default does not modify priority.

ionice_class

None

I/O scheduling class of server processes. I/O niceness class values are IOPRIO_CLASS_RT (realtime), IOPRIO_CLASS_BE (best-effort), and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE (idle). The default does not modify class and priority. Linux supports io scheduling priorities and classes since 2.6.13 with the CFQ io scheduler. Work only with ionice_priority.

ionice_priority

None

I/O scheduling priority of server processes. I/O niceness priority is a number which goes from 0 to 7. The higher the value, the lower the I/O priority of the process. Work only with ionice_class. Ignored if IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE is set.