Hi Miklos, Just to be sure : Are you using the write-behind translator? Regards, Sebastien. Miklos Balazs a écrit : > Dear Gluster Hackers, > > I have configured a Gluster cluster with 2 nodes mirroring each other > (with afr), and I have experienced very good performance with the fuse > client under Linux. However, if I export this filesystem with Samba (I > have tryed exporting from a separate gateway node, and also mounting > the filesystem on the cluster nodes and exporting from there), I see > very bad write performance: 5Mbytes/s aggregate bandwidth. I doesn't > matter if I write with multiple threads, or even writing from multiple > client machines at the same time, the aggregate bandwidth never gets > more than 5-6M/s. > > Is this a known issue, or has anyone managed to export glusterfs with > samba with good performance? If so, can You give me some hints on > optimizing samba? > > Thanks! And BTW, You have done great work with Gluster. I was using > Lustre before, but building and managing a HA cluster with Lustre was > a pain.. Gluster's architecture is much simpler and cleaner. > > Miklos Balazs > Sebastien LELIEVRE slelievre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Services to ISP TBS-internet http://www.TBS-internet.com/