Am Freitag 18 Januar 2008 17:49:15 schrieb Anand Avati: > Sascha, > the reason why 1.3.0pre4 might be faster would not be because of the > missing namespace, but most likely because of missing self-heal. can > you try with 'option self-heal off' in the unify section? may ask again, any idea why the old apache-1.3 performs way better on either gluster version than the others? or any idea which knobs to tweak to get more out of the others? usally, for static files from a local fileseystem, one would expect that nginx and lighttpd would outperform the apaches remarcably...may be my observations have a common cause with those of http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2008-01/msg00142.html ? Thanks a lot, Sascha > > are the test results same for multiple runs too? > > avati > > 2008/1/18, Sascha Ottolski <ottolski@xxxxxx>: > > Hi Folks, > > > > I'm wondering if anyone might have some general advices if I miss > > something important in my test setup. I'm trying to figure out how > > to tweak the configs to achieve the best performance, but get > > result that feel strange to me. I will post some numbers at a later > > point, but up to now what I discovered is: > > > > - glusterfs without a namespace (1.3.0pre4) seems to be significant > > faster than with namespace (tla patch-628) > > > > that seems to logical, at least I would expect some overhead for > > the namespace. > > > > what i absolutely not understand is, how different the webservers > > perform. i tested with > > > > siege -f /tmp/siege-urls.txt.new -c100 -i -r50 -b > > > > with up to 3 sessions in parellel, each firing it's requests to a > > seperate webserver (on seperate machines, of course). > > > > up to now my ranking by means of requests/per second is something > > like > > > > 630 | apache > > 430 | apache2 (worker) > > 350 | nginx > > 250 | lighttpd > > > > (with 1.3.0pre4 and no namespace, the best I've seen was apache2 > > with about 900, apache still 750). I must admit that up to now I > > did not compare it to local filesystem, but from my past > > experiences with webservers I would expect nginx and lighttpd way > > ahead of the apaches... > > > > Also, I exprimented a bit with different settings for io-threads on > > the server (1, 2, 4, 8, and cache-size 64 or 128MB), but that > > didn't seem to make much of a difference. Same with read-ahead > > (which seems logical, as I test with relatively small images). > > > > So far I did not try the booster. I use fuse-2.7.0-glfs7. I also > > did not try the latest tla nor fuse-2.7.2-glfs8. > > > > > > Thanks a lot for any pointer, > > > > Sascha > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-devel mailing list > > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
