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Sam McLeod

2018-Mar-18 22:13 UTC

[Gluster-users] Gluster very poor performance when copying small files (1x (2+1) = 3, SSD)

Howdy all,

We're experiencing terrible small file performance when copying or moving
files on gluster clients.

In the example below, Gluster is taking 6mins~ to copy 128MB / 21,000 files
sideways on a client, doing the same thing on NFS (which I know is a totally
different solution etc. etc.) takes approximately 10-15 seconds(!).

Any advice for tuning the volume or XFS settings would be greatly appreciated.

Hopefully I've included enough relevant information below.


## Gluster Client

root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # du -sh .
127M    .
root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # find . -type f | wc -l
21791
root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # du 9584toto9584.txt
4    9584toto9584.txt


root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # time cp -a private
private_perf_test

real    5m51.862s
user    0m0.862s
sys    0m8.334s

root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ # time rm -rf private_perf_test/

real    0m49.702s
user    0m0.087s
sys    0m0.958s


## Hosts

- 16x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz per Gluster host / client
- Storage: iSCSI provisioned (via 10Gbit DAC/Fibre), SSD disk, 50K R/RW 4k
IOP/s, 400MB/s per Gluster host
- Volumes are replicated across two hosts and one arbiter only host
- Networking is 10Gbit DAC/Fibre between Gluster hosts and clients
- 18GB DDR4 ECC memory

## Volume Info

root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster pool list
UUID          Hostname                        State
ad02970b-e2aa-4ca8-998c-bd10d5970faa  gluster-host-02.fqdn Connected
ea116a94-c19e-48db-b108-0be3ae622e2e  gluster-host-03.fqdn Connected
2e855c25-e7ac-4ff6-be85-e8bcc6f45ee4  localhost                       Connected

root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster volume info uat_storage

Volume Name: uat_storage
Type: Replicate
Volume ID: 7918f1c5-5031-47b8-b054-56f6f0c569a2
Status: Started
Snapshot Count: 0
Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: gluster-host-01.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
Brick2: gluster-host-02.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
Brick3: gluster-host-03.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage (arbiter)
Options Reconfigured:
performance.rda-cache-limit: 256MB
network.inode-lru-limit: 50000
server.outstanding-rpc-limit: 256
performance.client-io-threads: true
nfs.disable: on
transport.address-family: inet
client.event-threads: 8
cluster.eager-lock: true
cluster.favorite-child-policy: size
cluster.lookup-optimize: true
cluster.readdir-optimize: true
cluster.use-compound-fops: true
diagnostics.brick-log-level: ERROR
diagnostics.client-log-level: ERROR
features.cache-invalidation-timeout: 600
features.cache-invalidation: true
network.ping-timeout: 15
performance.cache-invalidation: true
performance.cache-max-file-size: 6MB
performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 60
performance.cache-size: 1024MB
performance.io-thread-count: 16
performance.md-cache-timeout: 600
performance.stat-prefetch: true
performance.write-behind-window-size: 256MB
server.event-threads: 8
transport.listen-backlog: 2048

root at gluster-host-01:~ # xfs_info /dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked
meta-data=/dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked isize=512    agcount=4,
agsize=196607360 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
         =                       crc=1        finobt=0 spinodes=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=786429440, imaxpct=5
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
naming   =version 2              bsize=8192   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=383998, version=2
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0


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TomK

2018-Mar-18 23:37 UTC

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On 3/18/2018 6:13 PM, Sam McLeod wrote:
Even your NFS transfers are 12.5 or so MB per second or less.

1) Did you use fdisk and LVM under that XFS filesystem?

2) Did you benchmark the XFS with something like bonnie++?  (There's 
probably newer benchmark suites now.)

3) Did you benchmark your Network transfer speeds?  Perhaps your NIC 
negotiated a lower speed.

3) I've done XFS tuning for another purpose but got good results.  If it 
helps, I can send you the doc.

Cheers,
Tom
> Howdy all,
> 
> We're experiencing terrible small file performance when copying or 
> moving files on gluster clients.
> 
> In the example below, Gluster is taking 6mins~ to copy 128MB / 21,000 
> files sideways on a client, doing the same thing on NFS (which I know is 
> a totally different solution etc. etc.) takes approximately 10-15 
> seconds(!).
> 
> Any advice for tuning the volume or XFS settings would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Hopefully I've included enough relevant information below.
> 
> 
> ## Gluster Client
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# du -sh .
> 127M ? ?.
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# find . -type f | wc -l
> 21791
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# du 9584toto9584.txt
> 4 ? ?9584toto9584.txt
> 
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# time cp -a private 
> private_perf_test
> 
> real ? ?5m51.862s
> user ? ?0m0.862s
> sys ? ?0m8.334s
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ # time rm -rf
private_perf_test/
> 
> real ? ?0m49.702s
> user ? ?0m0.087s
> sys ? ?0m0.958s
> 
> 
> ## Hosts
> 
> - 16x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz per Gluster host / client
> - Storage: iSCSI provisioned (via 10Gbit DAC/Fibre), SSD disk, 50K R/RW 
> 4k IOP/s, 400MB/s per Gluster host
> - Volumes are replicated across two hosts and one arbiter only host
> - Networking is 10Gbit DAC/Fibre between Gluster hosts and clients
> - 18GB DDR4 ECC memory
> 
> ## Volume Info
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster pool list
> UUID ? ? ? ? ?Hostname ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?State
> ad02970b-e2aa-4ca8-998c-bd10d5970faa ?gluster-host-02.fqdn Connected
> ea116a94-c19e-48db-b108-0be3ae622e2e ?gluster-host-03.fqdn Connected
> 2e855c25-e7ac-4ff6-be85-e8bcc6f45ee4 ?localhost                       
> Connected
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster volume info uat_storage
> 
> Volume Name: uat_storage
> Type: Replicate
> Volume ID: 7918f1c5-5031-47b8-b054-56f6f0c569a2
> Status: Started
> Snapshot Count: 0
> Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: gluster-host-01.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
> Brick2: gluster-host-02.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
> Brick3: gluster-host-03.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage (arbiter)
> Options Reconfigured:
> performance.rda-cache-limit: 256MB
> network.inode-lru-limit: 50000
> server.outstanding-rpc-limit: 256
> performance.client-io-threads: true
> nfs.disable: on
> transport.address-family: inet
> client.event-threads: 8
> cluster.eager-lock: true
> cluster.favorite-child-policy: size
> cluster.lookup-optimize: true
> cluster.readdir-optimize: true
> cluster.use-compound-fops: true
> diagnostics.brick-log-level: ERROR
> diagnostics.client-log-level: ERROR
> features.cache-invalidation-timeout: 600
> features.cache-invalidation: true
> network.ping-timeout: 15
> performance.cache-invalidation: true
> performance.cache-max-file-size: 6MB
> performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 60
> performance.cache-size: 1024MB
> performance.io <http://performance.io>-thread-count: 16
> performance.md-cache-timeout: 600
> performance.stat-prefetch: true
> performance.write-behind-window-size: 256MB
> server.event-threads: 8
> transport.listen-backlog: 2048
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # xfs_info /dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked
> meta-data=/dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked isize=512 ? ?agcount=4, 
> agsize=196607360 blks
>  ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sectsz=512 ? attr=2, projid32bit=1
>  ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? crc=1 ? ? ? ?finobt=0 spinodes=0
> data ? ? = ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bsize=4096 ? blocks=786429440, imaxpct=5
>  ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sunit=0 ? ? ?swidth=0 blks
> naming ? =version 2 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?bsize=8192 ? ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
> log ? ? ?=internal ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bsize=4096 ? blocks=383998, version=2
>  ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sectsz=512 ? sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
> realtime =none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? extsz=4096 ? blocks=0, rtextents=0
> 
> 
> --
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> https://smcleod.net
> https://twitter.com/s_mcleod
> 
> Words are my own opinions and do not?necessarily represent those of 
> my?employer or partners.
> 
> 
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Sam McLeod

2018-Mar-19 00:20 UTC

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Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply.

1. Yes XFS is on a LUKs LV (see below).
2. Yes, I prefer FIO but each Gluster host gets between 50-100K 4K random IOP/s
both write and read to disk.
3. Yes, we actually use 2x 10Gbit DACs in LACP, but we get full 10Gbit speeds
(and very low latency thanks to the DACs).
4. I'd love to see that, it'd be much appreciated thanks.



# lsblk
NAME                           MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
xvdc                           202:32   0  1.5T  0 disk
??xvdc1                        202:33   0  1.5T  0 part
  ??gluster-storage            253:1    0    3T  0 lvm
    ??gluster-storage-unlocked 253:3    0    3T  0 crypt /mnt/gluster-storage
xvda                           202:0    0   18G  0 disk
??xvda2                        202:2    0 17.5G  0 part
? ??centos-var                 253:2    0  9.5G  0 lvm   /var
? ??centos-root                253:0    0    8G  0 lvm   /
??xvda1                        202:1    0  500M  0 part  /boot
sr0                             11:0    1 1024M  0 rom
xvdb                           202:16   0  1.5T  0 disk
??xvdb1                        202:17   0  1.5T  0 part
  ??gluster-storage            253:1    0    3T  0 lvm
    ??gluster-storage-unlocked 253:3    0    3T  0 crypt /mnt/gluster-storage

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> On 19 Mar 2018, at 10:37 am, TomK <tomkcpr at mdevsys.com> wrote:
> 
> On 3/18/2018 6:13 PM, Sam McLeod wrote:
> Even your NFS transfers are 12.5 or so MB per second or less.
> 
> 1) Did you use fdisk and LVM under that XFS filesystem?
> 
> 2) Did you benchmark the XFS with something like bonnie++?  (There's
probably newer benchmark suites now.)
> 
> 3) Did you benchmark your Network transfer speeds?  Perhaps your NIC
negotiated a lower speed.
> 
> 3) I've done XFS tuning for another purpose but got good results.  If
it helps, I can send you the doc.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 
>> Howdy all,
>> We're experiencing terrible small file performance when copying or
moving files on gluster clients.
>> In the example below, Gluster is taking 6mins~ to copy 128MB / 21,000
files sideways on a client, doing the same thing on NFS (which I know is a
totally different solution etc. etc.) takes approximately 10-15 seconds(!).
>> Any advice for tuning the volume or XFS settings would be greatly
appreciated.
>> Hopefully I've included enough relevant information below.
>> ## Gluster Client
>> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # du -sh .
>> 127M    .
>> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # find . -type f | wc
-l
>> 21791
>> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # du 9584toto9584.txt
>> 4    9584toto9584.txt
>> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/  # time cp -a private
private_perf_test
>> real    5m51.862s
>> user    0m0.862s
>> sys    0m8.334s
>> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ # time rm -rf
private_perf_test/
>> real    0m49.702s
>> user    0m0.087s
>> sys    0m0.958s
>> ## Hosts
>> - 16x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz per Gluster host /
client
>> - Storage: iSCSI provisioned (via 10Gbit DAC/Fibre), SSD disk, 50K R/RW
4k IOP/s, 400MB/s per Gluster host
>> - Volumes are replicated across two hosts and one arbiter only host
>> - Networking is 10Gbit DAC/Fibre between Gluster hosts and clients
>> - 18GB DDR4 ECC memory
>> ## Volume Info
>> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster pool list
>> UUID          Hostname                        State
>> ad02970b-e2aa-4ca8-998c-bd10d5970faa  gluster-host-02.fqdn Connected
>> ea116a94-c19e-48db-b108-0be3ae622e2e  gluster-host-03.fqdn Connected
>> 2e855c25-e7ac-4ff6-be85-e8bcc6f45ee4  localhost                      
Connected
>> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster volume info uat_storage
>> Volume Name: uat_storage
>> Type: Replicate
>> Volume ID: 7918f1c5-5031-47b8-b054-56f6f0c569a2
>> Status: Started
>> Snapshot Count: 0
>> Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
>> Transport-type: tcp
>> Bricks:
>> Brick1: gluster-host-01.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
>> Brick2: gluster-host-02.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
>> Brick3: gluster-host-03.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage (arbiter)
>> Options Reconfigured:
>> performance.rda-cache-limit: 256MB
>> network.inode-lru-limit: 50000
>> server.outstanding-rpc-limit: 256
>> performance.client-io-threads: true
>> nfs.disable: on
>> transport.address-family: inet
>> client.event-threads: 8
>> cluster.eager-lock: true
>> cluster.favorite-child-policy: size
>> cluster.lookup-optimize: true
>> cluster.readdir-optimize: true
>> cluster.use-compound-fops: true
>> diagnostics.brick-log-level: ERROR
>> diagnostics.client-log-level: ERROR
>> features.cache-invalidation-timeout: 600
>> features.cache-invalidation: true
>> network.ping-timeout: 15
>> performance.cache-invalidation: true
>> performance.cache-max-file-size: 6MB
>> performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 60
>> performance.cache-size: 1024MB
>> performance.io <http://performance.io/> <http://performance.io
<http://performance.io/>>-thread-count: 16
>> performance.md-cache-timeout: 600
>> performance.stat-prefetch: true
>> performance.write-behind-window-size: 256MB
>> server.event-threads: 8
>> transport.listen-backlog: 2048
>> root at gluster-host-01:~ # xfs_info
/dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked
>> meta-data=/dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked isize=512    agcount=4,
agsize=196607360 blks
>>          =                       sectsz=512   attr=2, projid32bit=1
>>          =                       crc=1        finobt=0 spinodes=0
>> data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=786429440,
imaxpct=5
>>          =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks
>> naming   =version 2              bsize=8192   ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
>> log      =internal               bsize=4096   blocks=383998, version=2
>>          =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks,
lazy-count=1
>> realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
>> --
>> Sam McLeod (protoporpoise on IRC)
>> https://smcleod.net
>> https://twitter.com/s_mcleod
>> Words are my own opinions and do not necessarily represent those of my
employer or partners.
>> _______________________________________________
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Tom K.
>
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> 
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Rik Theys

2018-Mar-19 09:37 UTC

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Hi,

I've done some similar tests and experience similar performance issues
(see my 'gluster for home directories?' thread on the list).

If I read your mail correctly, you are comparing an NFS mount of the
brick disk against a gluster mount (using the fuse client)?

Which options do you have set on the NFS export (sync or async)?
>From my tests, I concluded that the issue was not bandwidth but latency.Gluster will only return an IO operation once all bricks have confirmed
that the data is on disk. If you are using a fuse mount, you might
compare with using the 'direct-io-mode=disable' option on the client
might help (no experience with this).

In our tests, I've used NFS-ganesha to serve the gluster volume over
NFS. This makes things even worse as NFS-ganesha has no "async" mode,
which makes performance terrible.

If you find a magic knob to make glusterfs fast on small-file workloads,
do let me know!

Regards,

Rik

On 03/18/2018 11:13 PM, Sam McLeod wrote:> Howdy all,
> 
> We're experiencing terrible small file performance when copying or
> moving files on gluster clients.
> 
> In the example below, Gluster is taking 6mins~ to copy 128MB / 21,000
> files sideways on a client, doing the same thing on NFS (which I know is
> a totally different solution etc. etc.) takes approximately 10-15
> seconds(!).
> 
> Any advice for tuning the volume or XFS settings would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Hopefully I've included enough relevant information below.
> 
> 
> ## Gluster Client
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# du -sh .
> 127M ? ?.
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# find . -type f | wc -l
> 21791
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# du 9584toto9584.txt
> 4 ? ?9584toto9584.txt
> 
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# time cp -a private
> private_perf_test
> 
> real ? ?5m51.862s
> user ? ?0m0.862s
> sys ? ?0m8.334s
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ # time rm -rf
private_perf_test/
> 
> real ? ?0m49.702s
> user ? ?0m0.087s
> sys ? ?0m0.958s
> 
> 
> ## Hosts
> 
> - 16x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz per Gluster host / client
> - Storage: iSCSI provisioned (via 10Gbit DAC/Fibre), SSD disk, 50K R/RW
> 4k IOP/s, 400MB/s per Gluster host
> - Volumes are replicated across two hosts and one arbiter only host
> - Networking is 10Gbit DAC/Fibre between Gluster hosts and clients
> - 18GB DDR4 ECC memory
> 
> ## Volume Info
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster pool list
> UUID ? ? ? ? ?Hostname ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?State
> ad02970b-e2aa-4ca8-998c-bd10d5970faa ?gluster-host-02.fqdn Connected
> ea116a94-c19e-48db-b108-0be3ae622e2e ?gluster-host-03.fqdn Connected
> 2e855c25-e7ac-4ff6-be85-e8bcc6f45ee4 ?localhost ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> Connected
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster volume info uat_storage
> 
> Volume Name: uat_storage
> Type: Replicate
> Volume ID: 7918f1c5-5031-47b8-b054-56f6f0c569a2
> Status: Started
> Snapshot Count: 0
> Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: gluster-host-01.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
> Brick2: gluster-host-02.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
> Brick3: gluster-host-03.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage (arbiter)
> Options Reconfigured:
> performance.rda-cache-limit: 256MB
> network.inode-lru-limit: 50000
> server.outstanding-rpc-limit: 256
> performance.client-io-threads: true
> nfs.disable: on
> transport.address-family: inet
> client.event-threads: 8
> cluster.eager-lock: true
> cluster.favorite-child-policy: size
> cluster.lookup-optimize: true
> cluster.readdir-optimize: true
> cluster.use-compound-fops: true
> diagnostics.brick-log-level: ERROR
> diagnostics.client-log-level: ERROR
> features.cache-invalidation-timeout: 600
> features.cache-invalidation: true
> network.ping-timeout: 15
> performance.cache-invalidation: true
> performance.cache-max-file-size: 6MB
> performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 60
> performance.cache-size: 1024MB
> performance.io <http://performance.io>-thread-count: 16
> performance.md-cache-timeout: 600
> performance.stat-prefetch: true
> performance.write-behind-window-size: 256MB
> server.event-threads: 8
> transport.listen-backlog: 2048
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # xfs_info /dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked
> meta-data=/dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked isize=512 ? ?agcount=4,
> agsize=196607360 blks
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sectsz=512 ? attr=2, projid32bit=1
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? crc=1 ? ? ? ?finobt=0 spinodes=0
> data ? ? = ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bsize=4096 ? blocks=786429440, imaxpct=5
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sunit=0 ? ? ?swidth=0 blks
> naming ? =version 2 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?bsize=8192 ? ascii-ci=0 ftype=1
> log ? ? ?=internal ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bsize=4096 ? blocks=383998, version=2
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sectsz=512 ? sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
> realtime =none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? extsz=4096 ? blocks=0, rtextents=0
> 
> 
> --
> Sam McLeod (protoporpoise on IRC)
> https://smcleod.net
> https://twitter.com/s_mcleod
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Ondrej Valousek

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[Gluster-users] Gluster very poor performance when copying small files (1x (2+1) = 3, SSD)

Hi,
As I posted in my previous emails - glusterfs can never match NFS (especially
async one) performance of small files/latency. That's given by the design.
Nothing you can do about it.
Ondrej

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gluster.org] On Behalf Of Rik Theys
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To: gluster-users at gluster.org; mailinglists at smcleod.net
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster very poor performance when copying small
files (1x (2+1) = 3, SSD)

Hi,

I've done some similar tests and experience similar performance issues (see
my 'gluster for home directories?' thread on the list).

If I read your mail correctly, you are comparing an NFS mount of the brick disk
against a gluster mount (using the fuse client)?

Which options do you have set on the NFS export (sync or async)?
>From my tests, I concluded that the issue was not bandwidth but latency.Gluster will only return an IO operation once all bricks have confirmed that the
data is on disk. If you are using a fuse mount, you might compare with using the
'direct-io-mode=disable' option on the client might help (no experience
with this).

In our tests, I've used NFS-ganesha to serve the gluster volume over NFS.
This makes things even worse as NFS-ganesha has no "async" mode, which
makes performance terrible.

If you find a magic knob to make glusterfs fast on small-file workloads, do let
me know!

Regards,

Rik

On 03/18/2018 11:13 PM, Sam McLeod wrote:> Howdy all,
> 
> We're experiencing terrible small file performance when copying or 
> moving files on gluster clients.
> 
> In the example below, Gluster is taking 6mins~ to copy 128MB / 21,000 
> files sideways on a client, doing the same thing on NFS (which I know 
> is a totally different solution etc. etc.) takes approximately 10-15 
> seconds(!).
> 
> Any advice for tuning the volume or XFS settings would be greatly 
> appreciated.
> 
> Hopefully I've included enough relevant information below.
> 
> 
> ## Gluster Client
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# du -sh .
> 127M ? ?.
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# find . -type f | wc -l
> 21791
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# du 9584toto9584.txt
> 4 ? ?9584toto9584.txt
> 
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ ?# time cp -a private 
> private_perf_test
> 
> real ? ?5m51.862s
> user ? ?0m0.862s
> sys ? ?0m8.334s
> 
> root at gluster-client:/mnt/gluster_perf_test/ # time rm -rf 
> private_perf_test/
> 
> real ? ?0m49.702s
> user ? ?0m0.087s
> sys ? ?0m0.958s
> 
> 
> ## Hosts
> 
> - 16x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz per Gluster host / 
> client
> - Storage: iSCSI provisioned (via 10Gbit DAC/Fibre), SSD disk, 50K 
> R/RW 4k IOP/s, 400MB/s per Gluster host
> - Volumes are replicated across two hosts and one arbiter only host
> - Networking is 10Gbit DAC/Fibre between Gluster hosts and clients
> - 18GB DDR4 ECC memory
> 
> ## Volume Info
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster pool list UUID ? ? ? ? ?Hostname ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
> State ad02970b-e2aa-4ca8-998c-bd10d5970faa ?gluster-host-02.fqdn 
> Connected ea116a94-c19e-48db-b108-0be3ae622e2e ?gluster-host-03.fqdn 
> Connected
> 2e855c25-e7ac-4ff6-be85-e8bcc6f45ee4 ?localhost Connected
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # gluster volume info uat_storage
> 
> Volume Name: uat_storage
> Type: Replicate
> Volume ID: 7918f1c5-5031-47b8-b054-56f6f0c569a2
> Status: Started
> Snapshot Count: 0
> Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: gluster-host-01.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
> Brick2: gluster-host-02.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage
> Brick3: gluster-host-03.fqdn:/mnt/gluster-storage/uat_storage 
> (arbiter) Options Reconfigured:
> performance.rda-cache-limit: 256MB
> network.inode-lru-limit: 50000
> server.outstanding-rpc-limit: 256
> performance.client-io-threads: true
> nfs.disable: on
> transport.address-family: inet
> client.event-threads: 8
> cluster.eager-lock: true
> cluster.favorite-child-policy: size
> cluster.lookup-optimize: true
> cluster.readdir-optimize: true
> cluster.use-compound-fops: true
> diagnostics.brick-log-level: ERROR
> diagnostics.client-log-level: ERROR
> features.cache-invalidation-timeout: 600
> features.cache-invalidation: true
> network.ping-timeout: 15
> performance.cache-invalidation: true
> performance.cache-max-file-size: 6MB
> performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 60
> performance.cache-size: 1024MB
> performance.io <http://performance.io>-thread-count: 16
> performance.md-cache-timeout: 600
> performance.stat-prefetch: true
> performance.write-behind-window-size: 256MB
> server.event-threads: 8
> transport.listen-backlog: 2048
> 
> root at gluster-host-01:~ # xfs_info /dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked
> meta-data=/dev/mapper/gluster-storage-unlocked isize=512 ? ?agcount=4,
> agsize=196607360 blks
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sectsz=512 ? attr=2, projid32bit=1
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? crc=1 ? ? ? ?finobt=0 spinodes=0 data ? ? 
> = ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bsize=4096 ? blocks=786429440, imaxpct=5
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sunit=0 ? ? ?swidth=0 blks naming ? 
> =version 2 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?bsize=8192 ? ascii-ci=0 ftype=1 log ? ? ?
> =internal ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bsize=4096 ? blocks=383998, version=2
> ? ? ? ? ?= ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? sectsz=512 ? sunit=0 blks, 
> lazy-count=1 realtime =none ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? extsz=4096 ? blocks=0, 
> rtextents=0
> 
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