[PATCH docs] pveceph: update OSD memory considerations

Alwin Antreich alwin at antreich.com
Thu Sep 18 18:45:49 CEST 2025


Since bluestore, OSDs adhere to the osd_memory_target and the
recommended amount of memory was increased.

See: https://docs.ceph.com/en/reef/start/hardware-recommendations/#ram

Signed-off-by: Alwin Antreich <alwin at antreich.com>
---
 pveceph.adoc | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pveceph.adoc b/pveceph.adoc
index 17efa4d..a2d71e7 100644
--- a/pveceph.adoc
+++ b/pveceph.adoc
@@ -131,14 +131,14 @@ carefully planned out and monitored. In addition to the predicted memory usage
 of virtual machines and containers, you must also account for having enough
 memory available for Ceph to provide excellent and stable performance.
 
-As a rule of thumb, for roughly **1 TiB of data, 1 GiB of memory** will be used
-by an OSD. While the usage might be less under normal conditions, it will use
-most during critical operations like recovery, re-balancing or backfilling.
-That means that you should avoid maxing out your available memory already on
-normal operation, but rather leave some headroom to cope with outages.
-
-The OSD service itself will use additional memory. The Ceph BlueStore backend of
-the daemon requires by default **3-5 GiB of memory** (adjustable).
+While usage may be less under normal conditions, it will consume more memory
+during critical operations, such as recovery, rebalancing, or backfilling. That
+means you should avoid maxing out your available memory already on regular
+operation, but rather leave some headroom to cope with outages.
+
+The current recommendation is to configure at least **8 GiB of memory per OSD
+daemon** for good performance. The OSD daemon requires, by default, 4 GiB of
+memory.
 
 [[pve_ceph_recommendation_network]]
 .Network
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