Great to hear! ----- Original Message -----> From: "Abi Askushi" <rightkicktech at gmail.com> > To: "Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj at redhat.com> > Cc: "gluster-user" <gluster-users at gluster.org> > Sent: Friday, September 8, 2017 7:01:00 PM > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Slow performance of gluster volume > > Following changes resolved the perf issue: > > Added the option > /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol : > option rpc-auth-allow-insecure onWas it this setting or was it the gluster upgrade, do you know for sure? It may be helpful to others to know for sure(Im interested too:). -b> > restarted glusterd > > Then set the volume option: > gluster volume set vms server.allow-insecure on > > I am reaching now the max network bandwidth and performance of VMs is quite > good. > > Did not upgrade the glusterd. > > As a next try I am thinking to upgrade gluster to 3.12 + test libgfapi > integration of qemu by upgrading to ovirt 4.1.5 and check vm perf. > > > On Sep 6, 2017 1:20 PM, "Abi Askushi" < rightkicktech at gmail.com > wrote: > > > > I tried to follow step from > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage to install latest > gluster on the first node. > It installed 3.10 and not 3.11. I am not sure how to install 3.11 without > compiling it. > Then when tried to start the gluster on the node the bricks were reported > down (the other 2 nodes have still 3.8). No sure why. The logs were showing > the below (even after rebooting the server): > > [2017-09-06 10:56:09.023777] E [rpcsvc.c:557:rpcsvc_check_and_reply_error] > 0-rpcsvc: rpc actor failed to complete successfully > [2017-09-06 10:56:09.024122] E [server-helpers.c:395:server_alloc_frame] > (-->/lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(rpcsvc_handle_rpc_call+0x325) [0x7f2d0ec20905] > -->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.10.5/xlator/protocol/server.so(+0x3006b) > [0x7f2cfa4bf06b] > -->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.10.5/xlator/protocol/server.so(+0xdb34) > [0x7f2cfa49cb34] ) 0-server: invalid argument: client [Invalid argument] > > Do I need to upgrade all nodes before I attempt to start the gluster > services? > I reverted the first node back to 3.8 at the moment and all restored. > Also tests with eager lock disabled did not make any difference. > > > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > Do you see any improvement with 3.11.1 as that has a patch that improves perf > for this kind of a workload > > Also, could you disable eager-lock and check if that helps? I see that max > time is being spent in acquiring locks. > > -Krutika > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Hi Krutika, > > Is it anything in the profile indicating what is causing this bottleneck? In > case i can collect any other info let me know. > > Thanx > > On Sep 5, 2017 13:27, "Abi Askushi" < rightkicktech at gmail.com > wrote: > > > > Hi Krutika, > > Attached the profile stats. I enabled profiling then ran some dd tests. Also > 3 Windows VMs are running on top this volume but did not do any stress > testing on the VMs. I have left the profiling enabled in case more time is > needed for useful stats. > > Thanx > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > OK my understanding is that with preallocated disks the performance with and > without shard will be the same. > > In any case, please attach the volume profile[1], so we can see what else is > slowing things down. > > -Krutika > > [1] - > https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Monitoring%20Workload/#running-glusterfs-volume-profile-command > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Hi Krutika, > > I already have a preallocated disk on VM. > Now I am checking performance with dd on the hypervisors which have the > gluster volume configured. > > I tried also several values of shard-block-size and I keep getting the same > low values on write performance. > Enabling client-io-threads also did not have any affect. > > The version of gluster I am using is glusterfs 3.8.12 built on May 11 2017 > 18:46:20. > The setup is a set of 3 Centos 7.3 servers and ovirt 4.1, using gluster as > storage. > > Below are the current settings: > > > Volume Name: vms > Type: Replicate > Volume ID: 4513340d-7919-498b-bfe0-d836b5cea40b > Status: Started > Snapshot Count: 0 > Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 > Transport-type: tcp > Bricks: > Brick1: gluster0:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick2: gluster1:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick3: gluster2:/gluster/vms/brick (arbiter) > Options Reconfigured: > server.event-threads: 4 > client.event-threads: 4 > performance.client-io-threads: on > features.shard-block-size: 512MB > cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable > performance.strict-o-direct: on > network.ping-timeout: 30 > storage.owner-gid: 36 > storage.owner-uid: 36 > user.cifs: off > features.shard: on > cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000 > cluster.shd-max-threads: 8 > cluster.locking-scheme: granular > cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full > cluster.server-quorum-type: server > cluster.quorum-type: auto > cluster.eager-lock: enable > network.remote-dio: off > performance.low-prio-threads: 32 > performance.stat-prefetch: on > performance.io-cache: off > performance.read-ahead: off > performance.quick-read: off > transport.address-family: inet > performance.readdir-ahead: on > nfs.disable: on > nfs.export-volumes: on > > > I observed that when testing with dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1G count=1 I > get 65MB/s on the vms gluster volume (and the network traffic between the > servers reaches ~ 500Mbps), while when testing with dd if=/dev/zero > of=testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct I get a consistent 10MB/s and the > network traffic hardly reaching 100Mbps. > > Any other things one can do? > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > I'm assuming you are using this volume to store vm images, because I see > shard in the options list. > > Speaking from shard translator's POV, one thing you can do to improve > performance is to use preallocated images. > This will at least eliminate the need for shard to perform multiple steps as > part of the writes - such as creating the shard and then writing to it and > then updating the aggregated file size - all of which require one network > call each, which further get blown up once they reach AFR (replicate) into > many more network calls. > > Second, I'm assuming you're using the default shard block size of 4MB (you > can confirm this using `gluster volume get <VOL> shard-block-size`). In our > tests, we've found that larger shard sizes perform better. So maybe change > the shard-block-size to 64MB (`gluster volume set <VOL> shard-block-size > 64MB`). > > Third, keep stat-prefetch enabled. We've found that qemu sends quite a lot of > [f]stats which can be served from the (md)cache to improve performance. So > enable that. > > Also, could you also enable client-io-threads and see if that improves > performance? > > Which version of gluster are you using BTW? > > -Krutika > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I have a gluster volume used to host several VMs (managed through oVirt). > The volume is a replica 3 with arbiter and the 3 servers use 1 Gbit network > for the storage. > > When testing with dd (dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct) > out of the volume (e.g. writing at /root/) the performance of the dd is > reported to be ~ 700MB/s, which is quite decent. When testing the dd on the > gluster volume I get ~ 43 MB/s which way lower from the previous. When > testing with dd the gluster volume, the network traffic was not exceeding > 450 Mbps on the network interface. I would expect to reach near 900 Mbps > considering that there is 1 Gbit of bandwidth available. This results having > VMs with very slow performance (especially on their write operations). > > The full details of the volume are below. Any advise on what can be tweaked > will be highly appreciated. > > Volume Name: vms > Type: Replicate > Volume ID: 4513340d-7919-498b-bfe0-d836b5cea40b > Status: Started > Snapshot Count: 0 > Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 > Transport-type: tcp > Bricks: > Brick1: gluster0:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick2: gluster1:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick3: gluster2:/gluster/vms/brick (arbiter) > Options Reconfigured: > cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable > performance.strict-o-direct: on > network.ping-timeout: 30 > storage.owner-gid: 36 > storage.owner-uid: 36 > user.cifs: off > features.shard: on > cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000 > cluster.shd-max-threads: 8 > cluster.locking-scheme: granular > cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full > cluster.server-quorum-type: server > cluster.quorum-type: auto > cluster.eager-lock: enable > network.remote-dio: off > performance.low-prio-threads: 32 > performance.stat-prefetch: off > performance.io-cache: off > performance.read-ahead: off > performance.quick-read: off > transport.address-family: inet > performance.readdir-ahead: on > nfs.disable: on > nfs.export-volumes: on > > > Thanx, > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
Did not upgrade yet gluster. I am still using 3.8.12. Only the mentioned changes did provide the performance boost.>From which version to which version did you see such performance boost? Iwill try to upgrade and check difference also. On Sep 11, 2017 2:45 AM, "Ben Turner" <bturner at redhat.com> wrote: Great to hear! ----- Original Message -----> From: "Abi Askushi" <rightkicktech at gmail.com> > To: "Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj at redhat.com> > Cc: "gluster-user" <gluster-users at gluster.org> > Sent: Friday, September 8, 2017 7:01:00 PM > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Slow performance of gluster volume > > Following changes resolved the perf issue: > > Added the option > /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol : > option rpc-auth-allow-insecure onWas it this setting or was it the gluster upgrade, do you know for sure? It may be helpful to others to know for sure(Im interested too:). -b> > restarted glusterd > > Then set the volume option: > gluster volume set vms server.allow-insecure on > > I am reaching now the max network bandwidth and performance of VMs isquite> good. > > Did not upgrade the glusterd. > > As a next try I am thinking to upgrade gluster to 3.12 + test libgfapi > integration of qemu by upgrading to ovirt 4.1.5 and check vm perf. > > > On Sep 6, 2017 1:20 PM, "Abi Askushi" < rightkicktech at gmail.com > wrote: > > > > I tried to follow step from > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage to install latest > gluster on the first node. > It installed 3.10 and not 3.11. I am not sure how to install 3.11 without > compiling it. > Then when tried to start the gluster on the node the bricks were reported > down (the other 2 nodes have still 3.8). No sure why. The logs wereshowing> the below (even after rebooting the server): > > [2017-09-06 10:56:09.023777] E [rpcsvc.c:557:rpcsvc_check_and_reply_error] > 0-rpcsvc: rpc actor failed to complete successfully > [2017-09-06 10:56:09.024122] E [server-helpers.c:395:server_alloc_frame] > (-->/lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(rpcsvc_handle_rpc_call+0x325) [0x7f2d0ec20905] > -->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.10.5/xlator/protocol/server.so(+0x3006b) > [0x7f2cfa4bf06b] > -->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.10.5/xlator/protocol/server.so(+0xdb34) > [0x7f2cfa49cb34] ) 0-server: invalid argument: client [Invalid argument] > > Do I need to upgrade all nodes before I attempt to start the gluster > services? > I reverted the first node back to 3.8 at the moment and all restored. > Also tests with eager lock disabled did not make any difference. > > > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > Do you see any improvement with 3.11.1 as that has a patch that improvesperf> for this kind of a workload > > Also, could you disable eager-lock and check if that helps? I see that max > time is being spent in acquiring locks. > > -Krutika > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Hi Krutika, > > Is it anything in the profile indicating what is causing this bottleneck?In> case i can collect any other info let me know. > > Thanx > > On Sep 5, 2017 13:27, "Abi Askushi" < rightkicktech at gmail.com > wrote: > > > > Hi Krutika, > > Attached the profile stats. I enabled profiling then ran some dd tests.Also> 3 Windows VMs are running on top this volume but did not do any stress > testing on the VMs. I have left the profiling enabled in case more time is > needed for useful stats. > > Thanx > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > OK my understanding is that with preallocated disks the performance withand> without shard will be the same. > > In any case, please attach the volume profile[1], so we can see what elseis> slowing things down. > > -Krutika > > [1] - > https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Monitoring%20Workload/#running-glusterfs-volume-profile-command> > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Hi Krutika, > > I already have a preallocated disk on VM. > Now I am checking performance with dd on the hypervisors which have the > gluster volume configured. > > I tried also several values of shard-block-size and I keep getting thesame> low values on write performance. > Enabling client-io-threads also did not have any affect. > > The version of gluster I am using is glusterfs 3.8.12 built on May 11 2017 > 18:46:20. > The setup is a set of 3 Centos 7.3 servers and ovirt 4.1, using gluster as > storage. > > Below are the current settings: > > > Volume Name: vms > Type: Replicate > Volume ID: 4513340d-7919-498b-bfe0-d836b5cea40b > Status: Started > Snapshot Count: 0 > Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 > Transport-type: tcp > Bricks: > Brick1: gluster0:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick2: gluster1:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick3: gluster2:/gluster/vms/brick (arbiter) > Options Reconfigured: > server.event-threads: 4 > client.event-threads: 4 > performance.client-io-threads: on > features.shard-block-size: 512MB > cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable > performance.strict-o-direct: on > network.ping-timeout: 30 > storage.owner-gid: 36 > storage.owner-uid: 36 > user.cifs: off > features.shard: on > cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000 > cluster.shd-max-threads: 8 > cluster.locking-scheme: granular > cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full > cluster.server-quorum-type: server > cluster.quorum-type: auto > cluster.eager-lock: enable > network.remote-dio: off > performance.low-prio-threads: 32 > performance.stat-prefetch: on > performance.io-cache: off > performance.read-ahead: off > performance.quick-read: off > transport.address-family: inet > performance.readdir-ahead: on > nfs.disable: on > nfs.export-volumes: on > > > I observed that when testing with dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1Gcount=1 I> get 65MB/s on the vms gluster volume (and the network traffic between the > servers reaches ~ 500Mbps), while when testing with dd if=/dev/zero > of=testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct I get a consistent 10MB/s and the > network traffic hardly reaching 100Mbps. > > Any other things one can do? > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > I'm assuming you are using this volume to store vm images, because I see > shard in the options list. > > Speaking from shard translator's POV, one thing you can do to improve > performance is to use preallocated images. > This will at least eliminate the need for shard to perform multiple stepsas> part of the writes - such as creating the shard and then writing to it and > then updating the aggregated file size - all of which require one network > call each, which further get blown up once they reach AFR (replicate) into > many more network calls. > > Second, I'm assuming you're using the default shard block size of 4MB (you > can confirm this using `gluster volume get <VOL> shard-block-size`). Inour> tests, we've found that larger shard sizes perform better. So maybe change > the shard-block-size to 64MB (`gluster volume set <VOL> shard-block-size > 64MB`). > > Third, keep stat-prefetch enabled. We've found that qemu sends quite alot of> [f]stats which can be served from the (md)cache to improve performance. So > enable that. > > Also, could you also enable client-io-threads and see if that improves > performance? > > Which version of gluster are you using BTW? > > -Krutika > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > I have a gluster volume used to host several VMs (managed through oVirt). > The volume is a replica 3 with arbiter and the 3 servers use 1 Gbitnetwork> for the storage. > > When testing with dd (dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1G count=1oflag=direct)> out of the volume (e.g. writing at /root/) the performance of the dd is > reported to be ~ 700MB/s, which is quite decent. When testing the dd onthe> gluster volume I get ~ 43 MB/s which way lower from the previous. When > testing with dd the gluster volume, the network traffic was not exceeding > 450 Mbps on the network interface. I would expect to reach near 900 Mbps > considering that there is 1 Gbit of bandwidth available. This resultshaving> VMs with very slow performance (especially on their write operations). > > The full details of the volume are below. Any advise on what can betweaked> will be highly appreciated. > > Volume Name: vms > Type: Replicate > Volume ID: 4513340d-7919-498b-bfe0-d836b5cea40b > Status: Started > Snapshot Count: 0 > Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 > Transport-type: tcp > Bricks: > Brick1: gluster0:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick2: gluster1:/gluster/vms/brick > Brick3: gluster2:/gluster/vms/brick (arbiter) > Options Reconfigured: > cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable > performance.strict-o-direct: on > network.ping-timeout: 30 > storage.owner-gid: 36 > storage.owner-uid: 36 > user.cifs: off > features.shard: on > cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000 > cluster.shd-max-threads: 8 > cluster.locking-scheme: granular > cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full > cluster.server-quorum-type: server > cluster.quorum-type: auto > cluster.eager-lock: enable > network.remote-dio: off > performance.low-prio-threads: 32 > performance.stat-prefetch: off > performance.io-cache: off > performance.read-ahead: off > performance.quick-read: off > transport.address-family: inet > performance.readdir-ahead: on > nfs.disable: on > nfs.export-volumes: on > > > Thanx, > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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----- Original Message -----> From: "Abi Askushi" <rightkicktech at gmail.com> > To: "Ben Turner" <bturner at redhat.com> > Cc: "Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj at redhat.com>, "gluster-user" <gluster-users at gluster.org> > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 1:40:42 AM > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Slow performance of gluster volume > > Did not upgrade yet gluster. I am still using 3.8.12. Only the mentioned > changes did provide the performance boost. > > From which version to which version did you see such performance boost? I > will try to upgrade and check difference also.Unfortunately I didn't record the package versions, I also may have done the same thing as you :) -b> > On Sep 11, 2017 2:45 AM, "Ben Turner" <bturner at redhat.com> wrote: > > Great to hear! > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Abi Askushi" <rightkicktech at gmail.com> > > To: "Krutika Dhananjay" <kdhananj at redhat.com> > > Cc: "gluster-user" <gluster-users at gluster.org> > > Sent: Friday, September 8, 2017 7:01:00 PM > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Slow performance of gluster volume > > > > Following changes resolved the perf issue: > > > > Added the option > > /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol : > > option rpc-auth-allow-insecure on > > Was it this setting or was it the gluster upgrade, do you know for sure? > It may be helpful to others to know for sure(Im interested too:). > > -b > > > > > restarted glusterd > > > > Then set the volume option: > > gluster volume set vms server.allow-insecure on > > > > I am reaching now the max network bandwidth and performance of VMs is > quite > > good. > > > > Did not upgrade the glusterd. > > > > As a next try I am thinking to upgrade gluster to 3.12 + test libgfapi > > integration of qemu by upgrading to ovirt 4.1.5 and check vm perf. > > > > > > On Sep 6, 2017 1:20 PM, "Abi Askushi" < rightkicktech at gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > > > > I tried to follow step from > > https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Storage to install latest > > gluster on the first node. > > It installed 3.10 and not 3.11. I am not sure how to install 3.11 without > > compiling it. > > Then when tried to start the gluster on the node the bricks were reported > > down (the other 2 nodes have still 3.8). No sure why. The logs were > showing > > the below (even after rebooting the server): > > > > [2017-09-06 10:56:09.023777] E [rpcsvc.c:557:rpcsvc_check_and_reply_error] > > 0-rpcsvc: rpc actor failed to complete successfully > > [2017-09-06 10:56:09.024122] E [server-helpers.c:395:server_alloc_frame] > > (-->/lib64/libgfrpc.so.0(rpcsvc_handle_rpc_call+0x325) [0x7f2d0ec20905] > > -->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.10.5/xlator/protocol/server.so(+0x3006b) > > [0x7f2cfa4bf06b] > > -->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.10.5/xlator/protocol/server.so(+0xdb34) > > [0x7f2cfa49cb34] ) 0-server: invalid argument: client [Invalid argument] > > > > Do I need to upgrade all nodes before I attempt to start the gluster > > services? > > I reverted the first node back to 3.8 at the moment and all restored. > > Also tests with eager lock disabled did not make any difference. > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Do you see any improvement with 3.11.1 as that has a patch that improves > perf > > for this kind of a workload > > > > Also, could you disable eager-lock and check if that helps? I see that max > > time is being spent in acquiring locks. > > > > -Krutika > > > > On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Krutika, > > > > Is it anything in the profile indicating what is causing this bottleneck? > In > > case i can collect any other info let me know. > > > > Thanx > > > > On Sep 5, 2017 13:27, "Abi Askushi" < rightkicktech at gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Krutika, > > > > Attached the profile stats. I enabled profiling then ran some dd tests. > Also > > 3 Windows VMs are running on top this volume but did not do any stress > > testing on the VMs. I have left the profiling enabled in case more time is > > needed for useful stats. > > > > Thanx > > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > OK my understanding is that with preallocated disks the performance with > and > > without shard will be the same. > > > > In any case, please attach the volume profile[1], so we can see what else > is > > slowing things down. > > > > -Krutika > > > > [1] - > > https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator% > 20Guide/Monitoring%20Workload/#running-glusterfs-volume-profile-command > > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Krutika, > > > > I already have a preallocated disk on VM. > > Now I am checking performance with dd on the hypervisors which have the > > gluster volume configured. > > > > I tried also several values of shard-block-size and I keep getting the > same > > low values on write performance. > > Enabling client-io-threads also did not have any affect. > > > > The version of gluster I am using is glusterfs 3.8.12 built on May 11 2017 > > 18:46:20. > > The setup is a set of 3 Centos 7.3 servers and ovirt 4.1, using gluster as > > storage. > > > > Below are the current settings: > > > > > > Volume Name: vms > > Type: Replicate > > Volume ID: 4513340d-7919-498b-bfe0-d836b5cea40b > > Status: Started > > Snapshot Count: 0 > > Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 > > Transport-type: tcp > > Bricks: > > Brick1: gluster0:/gluster/vms/brick > > Brick2: gluster1:/gluster/vms/brick > > Brick3: gluster2:/gluster/vms/brick (arbiter) > > Options Reconfigured: > > server.event-threads: 4 > > client.event-threads: 4 > > performance.client-io-threads: on > > features.shard-block-size: 512MB > > cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable > > performance.strict-o-direct: on > > network.ping-timeout: 30 > > storage.owner-gid: 36 > > storage.owner-uid: 36 > > user.cifs: off > > features.shard: on > > cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000 > > cluster.shd-max-threads: 8 > > cluster.locking-scheme: granular > > cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full > > cluster.server-quorum-type: server > > cluster.quorum-type: auto > > cluster.eager-lock: enable > > network.remote-dio: off > > performance.low-prio-threads: 32 > > performance.stat-prefetch: on > > performance.io-cache: off > > performance.read-ahead: off > > performance.quick-read: off > > transport.address-family: inet > > performance.readdir-ahead: on > > nfs.disable: on > > nfs.export-volumes: on > > > > > > I observed that when testing with dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1G > count=1 I > > get 65MB/s on the vms gluster volume (and the network traffic between the > > servers reaches ~ 500Mbps), while when testing with dd if=/dev/zero > > of=testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct I get a consistent 10MB/s and the > > network traffic hardly reaching 100Mbps. > > > > Any other things one can do? > > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Krutika Dhananjay < kdhananj at redhat.com > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm assuming you are using this volume to store vm images, because I see > > shard in the options list. > > > > Speaking from shard translator's POV, one thing you can do to improve > > performance is to use preallocated images. > > This will at least eliminate the need for shard to perform multiple steps > as > > part of the writes - such as creating the shard and then writing to it and > > then updating the aggregated file size - all of which require one network > > call each, which further get blown up once they reach AFR (replicate) into > > many more network calls. > > > > Second, I'm assuming you're using the default shard block size of 4MB (you > > can confirm this using `gluster volume get <VOL> shard-block-size`). In > our > > tests, we've found that larger shard sizes perform better. So maybe change > > the shard-block-size to 64MB (`gluster volume set <VOL> shard-block-size > > 64MB`). > > > > Third, keep stat-prefetch enabled. We've found that qemu sends quite a > lot of > > [f]stats which can be served from the (md)cache to improve performance. So > > enable that. > > > > Also, could you also enable client-io-threads and see if that improves > > performance? > > > > Which version of gluster are you using BTW? > > > > -Krutika > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Abi Askushi < rightkicktech at gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a gluster volume used to host several VMs (managed through oVirt). > > The volume is a replica 3 with arbiter and the 3 servers use 1 Gbit > network > > for the storage. > > > > When testing with dd (dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1G count=1 > oflag=direct) > > out of the volume (e.g. writing at /root/) the performance of the dd is > > reported to be ~ 700MB/s, which is quite decent. When testing the dd on > the > > gluster volume I get ~ 43 MB/s which way lower from the previous. When > > testing with dd the gluster volume, the network traffic was not exceeding > > 450 Mbps on the network interface. I would expect to reach near 900 Mbps > > considering that there is 1 Gbit of bandwidth available. This results > having > > VMs with very slow performance (especially on their write operations). > > > > The full details of the volume are below. Any advise on what can be > tweaked > > will be highly appreciated. > > > > Volume Name: vms > > Type: Replicate > > Volume ID: 4513340d-7919-498b-bfe0-d836b5cea40b > > Status: Started > > Snapshot Count: 0 > > Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3 > > Transport-type: tcp > > Bricks: > > Brick1: gluster0:/gluster/vms/brick > > Brick2: gluster1:/gluster/vms/brick > > Brick3: gluster2:/gluster/vms/brick (arbiter) > > Options Reconfigured: > > cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable > > performance.strict-o-direct: on > > network.ping-timeout: 30 > > storage.owner-gid: 36 > > storage.owner-uid: 36 > > user.cifs: off > > features.shard: on > > cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000 > > cluster.shd-max-threads: 8 > > cluster.locking-scheme: granular > > cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full > > cluster.server-quorum-type: server > > cluster.quorum-type: auto > > cluster.eager-lock: enable > > network.remote-dio: off > > performance.low-prio-threads: 32 > > performance.stat-prefetch: off > > performance.io-cache: off > > performance.read-ahead: off > > performance.quick-read: off > > transport.address-family: inet > > performance.readdir-ahead: on > > nfs.disable: on > > nfs.export-volumes: on > > > > > > Thanx, > > Alex > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >