Hi, I switched eth1 and eth0. Now the internal communication has 1Gbit. I ran the test again and now it took 3:30 instead of 8:something. Quite better but still not good though. Next I'll put the whole setup on recent HW. Oliver > Hi all, > > I read the posting from Jeremy and did some tar tests myself. The > hardware of my test servers is rather old. Two Dell 2550 which have > an internal network via crosslink (100Mbit) for the glusterfs > communication. I'll change to the other NIC (1Gbit) and run the test > again tomorrow. > The results were pretty disappointing. I tar-ed the kernel sources > which is around 80 MB. The resulting tar file had 11 MB. Unpacking > this on ext4 lasted a few seconds while on my glusterfs-Raid 1 it > took more than 8 minutes! Then I took the config of Jeremy and got > around 5 minutes for unpacking it. > Even if I have new and fast servers with 1Gbit or better 10Gbit > ethernet for glusterfs I fear that the performance is still too poor. > At least if it comes to reading/writing lots of tiny files from lots > of clients. Mail- or db-servers come to mind. > What do you think? > > Regards, > > Oliver > > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >
