# 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]

- [account-server]

- [account-replicator]

- [account-auditor]

- [account-reaper]

## [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.
handoffs_only | no | When handoffs_only mode is enabled the replicator will only replicate from handoff nodes to primary nodes and will not sync primary nodes with other primary nodes.

handoff_delete

auto

the number of replicas which are ensured in swift. If the number less than the number of replicas is set, account-replicator could delete local handoffs even if all replicas are not ensured in the cluster. The replicator would remove local handoff account database after syncing when the number of successful responses is greater than or equal to this number. By default handoff partitions will be removed when it has successfully replicated to all the canonical nodes.

## [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.

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