Opps I should have said that I am not just writing the data but copying it : time cp Small1/* Small2/* Thanks, BJ On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Barclay Jameson <almightybeeij@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did a Ceph cluster install 2 weeks ago where I was getting great > performance (~= PanFS) where I could write 100,000 1MB files in 61 > Mins (Took PanFS 59 Mins). I thought I could increase the performance > by adding a better MDS server so I redid the entire build. > > Now it takes 4 times as long to write the same data as it did before. > The only thing that changed was the MDS server. (I even tried moving > the MDS back on the old slower node and the performance was the same.) > > The first install was on CentOS 7. I tried going down to CentOS 6.6 > and it's the same results. > I use the same scripts to install the OSDs (which I created because I > can never get ceph-deploy to behave correctly. Although, I did use > ceph-deploy to create the MDS and MON and initial cluster creation.) > > I use btrfs on the OSDS as I can get 734 MB/s write and 1100 MB/s read > with rados bench -p cephfs_data 500 write --no-cleanup && rados bench > -p cephfs_data 500 seq (xfs was 734 MB/s write but only 200 MB/s read) > > Could anybody think of a reason as to why I am now getting a huge regression. > > Hardware Setup: > [OSDs] > 64 GB 2133 MHz > Dual Proc E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores) > 40Gb Mellanox NIC > > [MDS/MON new] > 128 GB 2133 MHz > Dual Proc E5-2650 v3 @ 2.30GHz (20 Cores) > 40Gb Mellanox NIC > > [MDS/MON old] > 32 GB 800 MHz > Dual Proc E5472 @ 3.00GHz (8 Cores) > 10Gb Intel NIC _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com