> I have a workload where around 10000 stat() calls per second must be > hammered on a mounted glusterfs share. So far I suffer very bad performance, > way worse than NFS. I tried with and without all performance translators > (besides booster), as well as increasing the -e -a options.. -a and -e helps only for the 2nd stat and beyond. are the 10000 stat() calls being performed on 10000 different files? what are the total number of files and are they re-stat()ed? how many mount points and threads per moutn point? avati