fix wiki-special link to "USB installation"

[pve-docs.git] / pveceph.adoc

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@@ -86,9 +86,16 @@ provide enough resources for stable and durable Ceph performance.
 .Memory
 Especially in a hyper-converged setup, the memory consumption needs to be
 carefully monitored. In addition to the intended workload from virtual machines
-and container, Ceph needs enough memory available to provide good and stable
-performance. As a rule of thumb, for roughly 1 TiB of data, 1 GiB of memory
-will be used by an OSD. OSD caching will use additional memory.
+and containers, Ceph needs enough memory available 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. Especially during recovery, rebalancing or backfilling.
+
+The daemon itself will use additional memory. The Bluestore backend of the
+daemon requires by default **3-5 GiB of memory** (adjustable). In contrast, the
+legacy Filestore backend uses the OS page cache and the memory consumption is
+generally related to PGs of an OSD daemon.
 
 .Network
 We recommend a network bandwidth of at least 10 GbE or more, which is used
@@ -101,7 +108,7 @@ services on the same network and may even break the {pve} cluster stack.
 
 Further, estimate your bandwidth needs. While one HDD might not saturate a 1 Gb
 link, multiple HDD OSDs per node can, and modern NVMe SSDs will even saturate
-10 Gbps of bandwidth quickly. Deploying a network capable of even more bandwith
+10 Gbps of bandwidth quickly. Deploying a network capable of even more bandwidth
 will ensure that it isn't your bottleneck and won't be anytime soon, 25, 40 or
 even 100 GBps are possible.
 
@@ -378,7 +385,7 @@ pveceph osd create /dev/sd[X] -db_dev /dev/sd[Y] -wal_dev /dev/sd[Z]
 ----
 
 You can directly choose the size for those with the '-db_size' and '-wal_size'
-paremeters respectively. If they are not given the following values (in order)
+parameters respectively. If they are not given the following values (in order)
 will be used:
 
 * bluestore_block_{db,wal}_size from ceph configuration...