On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Olivier Le Cam wrote: > Ooops, I have cc the wrong command on the Ubuntu server. Please correct: > > > ubuntu:# dd if=/gl_nunki/file_test of=/dev/null > > 524288+0 records in > > 524288+0 records out > > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 3,15924 s, 85,0 MB/s > > with: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/file_test count=262144 bs=1024 > 262144+0 records in > 262144+0 records out > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 5,56942 s, 48,2 MB/s Please try both these commands with the same block size. Also, be aware that GlusterFS performance goes down as the block size decreases. ------------------------------ Vikas Gorur Engineer - Gluster, Inc. +1 (408) 770 1894 ------------------------------