Kernel 2.6.15. mainline-2.5 patch 275. fuse 2.6.5 Tested with: dbench -t 10 10. Is performance supposed to be this bad? Glusterfs /volumes: Throughput 15.8983 MB/sec 10 procs Bypass glusterfs direct to /volume1: Throughput 65.0482 MB/sec 10 procs Bypass glusterfs direct to /volume2: Throughput 66.5139 MB/sec 10 procs ============= client.vol: volume server1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client # for TCP/IP transport option remote-host 127.0.0.1 # IP address of the remote brick option remote-subvolume volumenamespace end-volume volume server1vol1 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client # for TCP/IP transport option remote-host 127.0.0.1 # IP address of the remote brick option remote-subvolume clusterfs1 end-volume volume server1vol2 type protocol/client option transport-type tcp/client # for TCP/IP transport option remote-host 127.0.0.1 # IP address of the remote brick option remote-subvolume clusterfs2 end-volume volume bricks type cluster/unify option namespace server1 option readdir-force-success on # ignore failed mounts subvolumes server1vol1 server1vol2 option scheduler rr option rr.limits.min-free-disk 5 #% end-volume volume writebehind #writebehind improves write performance a lot type performance/write-behind option aggregate-size 131072 # in bytes subvolumes bricks end-volume volume readahead type performance/read-ahead option page-size 65536 # unit in bytes option page-count 16 # cache per file = (page-count x page-size) subvolumes writebehind end-volume volume iothreads type performance/io-threads option thread-count 32 subvolumes readahead end-volume ============================== server.vol: volume volume1 type storage/posix option directory /volume1 end-volume #volume posixlocks1 #type features/posix-locks #option mandatory on # enables mandatory locking on all files #subvolumes volume1 #end-volume volume clusterfs1 type performance/io-threads option thread-count 16 subvolumes volume1 end-volume ####### volume volume2 type storage/posix option directory /volume2 end-volume #volume posixlocks2 #type features/posix-locks #option mandatory on # enables mandatory locking on all files #subvolumes volume2 #end-volume volume clusterfs2 type performance/io-threads option thread-count 16 subvolumes volume2 end-volume ####### volume volumenamespace type storage/posix option directory /volume.namespace end-volume ### volume clusterfs type protocol/server option transport-type tcp/server subvolumes clusterfs1 clusterfs2 volumenamespace option auth.ip.clusterfs1.allow * option auth.ip.clusterfs2.allow * option auth.ip.volumenamespace.allow * end-volume