Re: webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

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can you please share your spec files with glusterfs.pastebin.com ?

thanks,
avati

2008/1/20, Sascha Ottolski <ottolski@xxxxxx>:
>
> Am Samstag 19 Januar 2008 11:03:43 schrieb Sascha Ottolski:
> > 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?
>
> now, another astonishing observation: if I enable the io-cache, it has a
> good effect for apache1 (almost doubles the requests/second), but
> almost none for apache2, nginx and lighttpd.
>
> could this help to understand more about the performance differences?
>
>
> Thanks, Sascha
>
>
>
> >
> > 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.h
> >tml ?
> >
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> > > >
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