Avati, What mount command are you referring to? Harris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Avati" <avati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Harris Landgarten" <harrisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "gluster-devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 1:03:58 PM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: writebehind slowness Harris, also please try with "--direct-io-mode=write-only" command line argument to the mount command. thanks, avati 2007/8/1 , Anand Avati < avati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >: Harris, the latest TLA has some cleanups about removing redundant synchronization locks, which can possible affect small files. can you please confirm if the performance hit on small files is seen with patch-402 as well? thanks! avati 2007/8/1 , Harris Landgarten < harrisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >: time cp -av /usr/share/zoneinfo /mnt/glusterfs/test Harris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anand Avati" < avati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: "Harris Landgarten" < harrisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: "gluster-devel" < gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 11:03:58 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York Subject: Re: writebehind slowness Harris, with what application did you benchmark these number? avati 2007/8/1 , Harris Landgarten < harrisl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >: I am doing some very basic tests on 397. time cp -av /usr/share/zoneinfo /mnt/glusterfs/test with writebehind: 20s without writebehind: 12s Please check writebehind functionality. What test shows an improvement? Harris _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel -- Anand V. Avati -- Anand V. Avati -- Anand V. Avati