Just experienced the same today when creating Bacula-Backups. It doesn't seem to happen with bonnie, so at the moment, I'm clueless about what might be causing it. Will investigate further tomorrow. > -----Original Message----- > From: gluster-devel-bounces+m.gerstner=bmiag.de@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:gluster-devel-bounces+m.gerstner=bmiag.de@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > skimber > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:13 PM > To: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Rsync failure problem > > > Further to my message below, I'm getting a lot (thousands?) of errors like > this in the glusterfsd server log: > > 2008-07-15 14:19:41 E [posix.c:1984:posix_setdents] brick-ns: Error > creating > file /data/export-ns/mydata/myfile.txt with mode (0100644) > > Nothing relevant in syslog or the client logs I don't think. > > > > > skimber wrote: > > > > Thanks for the responses. > > > > It turned out that the issue was with the disk in one of the clients. > > Using the other client machine it appears to be working fine, although > it > > does seem very slow. > > > > An ls -l on a directory containing about 150 files took > 5 mins and the > > rsync will only go at a rate of roughly one file every 3 seconds, > average > > size 30 to 50Kb. > > > > If I do the rsync to the client's local HD instead it's many files per > > second. > > > > I have tried adding the following to the end of the client config from > my > > original post but it doesn't appear to have made any noticable > difference: > > > > volume readahead > > type performance/read-ahead > > option page-size 128kB # 256KB is the default option > > option page-count 4 # 2 is default option > > option force-atime-update off # default is off > > subvolumes unify > > end-volume > > > > volume writebehind > > type performance/write-behind > > option aggregate-size 1MB # default is 0bytes > > option flush-behind on # default is 'off' > > subvolumes readahead > > end-volume > > > > volume io-cache > > type performance/io-cache > > option cache-size 64MB # default is 32MB > > option page-size 1MB # 128KB is default option > > option priority *:0 # default is '*:0' > > option force-revalidate-timeout 2 # default is 1 > > subvolumes writebehind > > end-volume > > > > > > Can anyone tell me if I have done this correctly and/or suggest anything > > else I can do to fix this performance issue? > > > > Thanks > > > > Simon > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rsync-failure-problem- > tp18420195p18466242.html > Sent from the gluster-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel