On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Nathan Stratton <nathan at robotics.net>wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Todd Daugherty wrote: > > I have not used it in production yet but I did a test with: >> http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Translators/cluster/stripe >> >> That was quite nice across 8 servers for Quicktime files (average file >> 1GB). >> >> Why would you say no to Xen VM files? >> > > Because with xen you need to --disable-direct-io-mode to get it to work and > that kills performance. > > Raw disk: > 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 21.0523 seconds, 408 MB/s > > Gluster: > 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 47.4356 seconds, 181 MB/s > > Gluster --disable-direct-io-mode > 8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 336.514 seconds, 25.5 MB/ autch, This is a huge penalty! My primary VMs are for Nagios, Cacti and MySQL. Both Nagios and Cacti have strong interaction with MySQL Vm which is storing thing on "file system". So I think is is the key to move forward and choose another technology. Francisco > > > > <> >> > Nathan Stratton CTO, BlinkMind, Inc. > nathan at robotics.net nathan at blinkmind.com > http://www.robotics.net http://www.blinkmind.com > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://zresearch.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- blog: http://sufixo.com/raw http://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscocabrita -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://zresearch.com/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20090630/4f67515b/attachment.htm>
