Some extra info: GFS is mounted with noquota,noatime options /proc/cluster/lock_dlm/drop_count = 200000 Mital On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:05 -0700, Mital Patel wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for suggestions on how to increase the speed of our GFS > configuration. We are using GFS on a cluster of 4 web servers with a > EMC AX150i iscsi server backend. Cluster/GFS is setup and working > properly, however it seems to have horrible performance when multiple > nodes attempt to create files in the same shared directory. Our > application require us to create many small files on the shared drive, > which according to this site, > http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_78_3152.shtm is not the best environment > to use GFS. I am exploring alternatives, but if we can get GFS to a > point where it's usable, we want to stick with it and hope GFS2 > increases the performance even more. > > I have read through some previous threads and it seems like I can eek > some performance by increasing the gfs_scand interval, is that correct? > Are there any other settings that would help with performance? > > System Info: > Centos 4.5 > kernel 2.6.9-55.0.6.ELsmp > GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-72.2.0.7 > GFS-6.1.14-0 > dlm-1.0.3-1 > dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-46.16.0.8 > > > gfs_tool gettune: > ilimit1 = 100 > ilimit1_tries = 3 > ilimit1_min = 1 > ilimit2 = 500 > ilimit2_tries = 10 > ilimit2_min = 3 > demote_secs = 300 > incore_log_blocks = 1024 > jindex_refresh_secs = 60 > depend_secs = 60 > scand_secs = 5 > recoverd_secs = 60 > logd_secs = 1 > quotad_secs = 5 > inoded_secs = 15 > glock_purge = 0 > quota_simul_sync = 64 > quota_warn_period = 10 > atime_quantum = 3600 > quota_quantum = 60 > quota_scale = 1.0000 (1, 1) > quota_enforce = 0 > quota_account = 0 > new_files_jdata = 0 > new_files_directio = 0 > max_atomic_write = 4194304 > max_readahead = 262144 > lockdump_size = 131072 > stall_secs = 600 > complain_secs = 10 > reclaim_limit = 5000 > entries_per_readdir = 32 > prefetch_secs = 10 > statfs_slots = 64 > max_mhc = 10000 > greedy_default = 100 > greedy_quantum = 25 > greedy_max = 250 > rgrp_try_threshold = 100 > statfs_fast = 0 > > > > > > Mital > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster -- Mital Patel Systems Administrator Tiny Prints Inc -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
