Roberto Franchini
2010-May-15 09:38 UTC
[Gluster-users] Running Gluster client/server on single process
Hello, we have a 6 machine gluster installation in distribuite/replicate. Each server is a client too. We have 4 other clients. I wonder if it is possible to run a single process on servers-clients. For nufa it seems yes : http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/NUFA_with_single_process Cheers, R. -- Roberto Franchini http://www.celi.it http://www.blogmeter.it http://www.memesphere.it Tel +39.011.562.71.15 jabber:ro.franchini at gmail.com skype:ro.franchini
Craig Carl
2010-May-15 20:06 UTC
[Gluster-users] Running Gluster client/server on single process
Robert - NUFA has been deprecated and doesn't apply to any recent version of Gluster. What version are you running? ('glusterfs --version') Thanks, Craig -- Craig Carl Gluster, Inc. Cell - (408) 829-9953 (California, USA) Gtalk - craig.carl at gmail.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto Franchini" <ro.franchini at gmail.com> To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 2:38:33 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [Gluster-users] Running Gluster client/server on single process Hello, we have a 6 machine gluster installation in distribuite/replicate. Each server is a client too. We have 4 other clients. I wonder if it is possible to run a single process on servers-clients. For nufa it seems yes : http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/NUFA_with_single_process Cheers, R. -- Roberto Franchini http://www.celi.it http://www.blogmeter.it http://www.memesphere.it Tel +39.011.562.71.15 jabber:ro.franchini at gmail.com skype:ro.franchini _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
Tejas N. Bhise
2010-May-16 03:31 UTC
[Gluster-users] Running Gluster client/server on single process
Robert, Is there any specific reason why you want to run the client and server in a single process ? Regards, Tejas. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto Franchini" <ro.franchini at gmail.com> To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 3:08:33 PM Subject: [Gluster-users] Running Gluster client/server on single process Hello, we have a 6 machine gluster installation in distribuite/replicate. Each server is a client too. We have 4 other clients. I wonder if it is possible to run a single process on servers-clients. For nufa it seems yes : http://gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/NUFA_with_single_process Cheers, R. -- Roberto Franchini http://www.celi.it http://www.blogmeter.it http://www.memesphere.it Tel +39.011.562.71.15 jabber:ro.franchini at gmail.com skype:ro.franchini _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
Tejas N. Bhise
2010-May-16 16:45 UTC
[Gluster-users] Running Gluster client/server on single process
Roberto, Since you said you are running distribute each gluster client ( mount ) will get files from multiple servers ( backends ). So you might not save that much. Secondly, any problem in your client code may also kill your server process ( if they are same ) and the other clients/mounts that use backend subvolumes on this server will suffer too. You may want to try running in the same process and see how much you gain and whether its worth it for your kind of data usage. Let me know how you go forward with this and if you have more questions. Regards, Tejas. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto Franchini" <franchini at celi.it> To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 7:12:49 PM Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Running Gluster client/server on single process On 5/16/10, Tejas N. Bhise <tejas at gluster.com> wrote:> Robert, > > Is there any specific reason why you want to run the client and server in a > single process ?Why? Well, since the boxes are client and server at the same time we think running gluster in single process can save system resources. We run gluster 3.0.4 on ubuntu 9.10 (4 nodes) and 10.04 (2 nodes) server. We are going to update all the nodes to 10.04 in few weeks. 4 nodes are application servers (tomcat) and 2 run batches. Each byte of ram, or cpu cycle, gained improve our overall performance :) But maybe running single process will degradate them. Regards, R. -- Roberto Franchini http://www.celi.it http://www.blogmeter.it http://www.memesphere.it Tel +39.011.562.71.15 jabber:ro.franchini at gmail.com skype:ro.franchini _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users at gluster.org http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users