2008/10/27 Ben Mok <benmok@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi , > > I am using GlusterFS-1.3.12, fuse-2.7.3glfs10 , I have four servers and four > clients, what do you suggest to improve the throughput of them, increase > number of clients or servers? You can try loading the following performance translators and see if it helps: * io-threads: load this just above your storage/posix translators on the servers * read-ahead: if your applications mainly make sequential reads, loading this translator on the clients will increase throughput. * write-behind: if your applications are write-intensive, loading this translator on the client side may help performance. Vikas Gorur -- Engineer - Z Research http://gluster.org/