John Marshall wrote: > Jean Spirat wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have seen the benchmarks on the gluster website and i wondered if >> there is a big difference between infiniband and tcp/ip performances. >> Anyone can share some stats on this i do not know the infiniband >> technology at all. >> >> > Hi, > > Some preliminary numbers I have for a 4x SDR IB network, single > disk (RAID 5, 4+1, SAS, 300G 15K disks), single user: > > transport read write notes > --------- ---- ----- ----- > local ~254 ~255 for a 100G file, not compensating for > caching > take them for what their worth :) > nfs 158 76 not gluster, of course! > tcp (ipoib) 171 118 no optimizations > sdp 211 108 no optimizations > sdp 210 128 iot 4, 32MB > verbs 218 150 no optimizations > verbs 220 150 recv/send size 1048675, recv/send-count 16 > > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > The tuning is just overall so the block sizes can make a huge difference. The numbers just give a good feeling for speeds. We have 8 servers that are also clients of each other with DDR IB each with 4x750 SATA II in RAID 5 with 16GB RAM. rates are in MBs. A = aggregat S = per server Transport Read Write Read notes ---------- ------ ------ ------ IBverbs 5993 (A) 5111 (A) cache IBverbs 749 (S) 638 (S) cache IBverbs 3616 (A) 2598 (A) exceeding cache, but mixed IBverbs 452 (S) 325 (S) exceeding cache, bu tmixed IBverbs 958 (A) 747 (A) no cache IBverbs 120 (S) 93 (S) no cache NFS (GigE) 874 (A) 739 (A) cache NFS (GigE) 109 (S) 92 (S) cache Hope it helps. -robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20080721/a4b450c8/attachment.htm