, I''ve been told that striping carries a heavy performance penalty, so
it was suggested that I setup using just distribute on client on top of the
subvolumes.
I was also told to use the readahead and writebehind translators, as well as the
iocache, locks, and posix ones (which you''re probably already using).
The pertinent bit from my client config file is below:
<snip>
volume distribute
type cluster/distribute
subvolumes client3 client4
end-volume
volume writebehind
type performance/write-behind
option cache-size 4MB
subvolumes distribute
end-volume
volume readahead
type performance/read-ahead
option page-count 4
subvolumes writebehind
end-volume
volume iocache
type performance/io-cache
option cache-size 1GB
option cache-timeout 1
subvolumes readahead
end-volume
volume quickread
type performance/quick-read
option cache-timeout 1
option max-file-size 64kB
subvolumes iocache
end-volume
volume statprefetch
type performance/stat-prefetch
subvolumes quickread
end-volume
Hopefully this helps - I have seen a measurable performance improvement under
iozone (though not bonnie++) with these translators configured.
James Burnash
Unix SA
x2248
-----Original Message-----
From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at
gluster.org] On Behalf Of tegner at renget.se
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 6:07 AM
To: gluster-users at gluster.org
Subject: [Gluster-users] stripe nfs performance
I''m in the process of evaluating gluster, and to that end I installed
Gluster Storage Platform 3.0 (using the "usb-method") on four servers.
I
created a striped volume and exported it as nfs (and glusterfs).
I nfs-mounted this volume on a node and copied a file about 400 MB large,
this took about twice the time compared to copy to an ordinary nfs-mounted
partition. Are these timings reasonable?
Then I tested to copy one instance of this file from several nodes
simultaneously, but those timings did not indicate superior performance
for the gluster mounted file system: in all cases it took about twice as
long time to complete all copying to the gluster mounted system doing the
copying from two and three nodes at the same time (as compared to doing it
to a singel nfs mounted partition).
Hardware is nothing fancy, disks are old sata (about 35GB), and all nodes
sit on a gigabit switch.
I guess I''m doing something wrong here, but since I''m using
the Gluster
Storage Platform there shouldn''t be too many ways to go wrong ...
Regards,
/jon
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