> > I realise that the speed of the glusterfs will be lower than NFS, but > for my tests, I can get the speed to be similar (linespeed) for large > files, but for small files NFS is much faster. I have tried using > server-to-server AFR and client-based AFR, with and without unify, with > and without the various performance volumes as recommended in the > documentation. But I haven't been able to find a setup that is faster > than 1/3 the speed of NFS for small files. > > I'm wondering if anyone could post their config files for the server and > client that has reasonable performance for small files (this is going to > be for web data so most files are <50kb) If you are looking at serving static files via web, you might be interested in mod_glusterfs (available in the glusterfs--mainline--3.0 branch). mod_glusterfs is currently available for apache-1.3, lighttpd-1.4 and lighttpd-1.5 (we are working on apache2 support). http benchmarks show mod_glusterfs boosts the performance significantly, especially for small files (by avoiding the fuse context switch overhead) avati
