Gluster users - Feb 2013 - horrible write performance after upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3

I have a brick on a MD RAID5 array formatted with ext4 on a gigabit network.

My brick is located at /srv/media.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/srv/media/test.zero reports 150MB/sec
dd reading reports 300MB/sec

I have used iperf to verify it is not a network adapter issue. I get 
1gbit/sec each way.

On GlusterFS 3.2 my read and write performance was as expected. 
100MB/sec each way.

On GlusterFS 3.3, my read speed is still 100MB/sec but my write speed 
never exceeds 10MB/sec. It seems something is purposely throttling my 
writes like I'm on a 100mbit network.

CPU usage on the server and client are around 25% during the transfer. 
No other processes are eating I/O.

Any ideas on why write performance is suffering?

gluster> volume info

Volume Name: media
Type: Distribute
Volume ID: 990a5d58-f76c-405c-a7bf-096e70b9fed3
Status: Started
Number of Bricks: 1
Transport-type: tcp
Bricks:
Brick1: 10.0.0.1:/srv/media
Options Reconfigured:
auth.allow: 10.0.0.*
nfs.disable: On
performance.cache-size: 128MB
performance.write-behind-window-size: 128MB

Thanks,
Michael

On 02/26/2013 01:50 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Any ideas on why write performance is suffering?
This is really strange. After my e-mail I tested it again and I see 
normal speeds now. I have not touched my brick settings.

If I can reproduce it I'll report back.