Hello again, For testing purposes, I have deleted my original distributed/replicated volume that was seeing write's at around 10 MB/s and created one on the same cluster that is only distributed. Now, I'm seeing the kind of performance I was hoping to see from distributed/replicated: [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# gluster volume info pifs Volume Name: pifs Type: Distribute Status: Started Number of Bricks: 4 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: vm-container-0-0:/gluster Brick2: vm-container-0-1:/gluster Brick3: vm-container-0-2:/gluster Brick4: vm-container-0-3:/gluster [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# mount | grep pifs glusterfs#127.0.0.1:pifs on /pifs type fuse (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,max_read=131072) [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/pifs/dd_test.img bs=1M count=2000 2000+0 records in 2000+0 records out 2097152000 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 22.2793 seconds, 94.1 MB/s An order of magnitude slower with replication. What's going on I wonder? Thanks for any suggestions. --joey On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Joey McDonald <joey at scare.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanchlia at gmail.com>wrote: > >> And can you also give the mount options of gluster fs? >> >> > Sure: > > [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# tail -2 /etc/fstab > /dev/sdb1 /gluster ext3 defaults 0 1 > 127.0.0.1:pifs /pifs glusterfs defaults,_netdev > 0 0 > > I'm not running VM's off the gluster share but that's the general idea of > where I'd like to get with this platform. That's obviously going to require > some different mount options but I'd like to get this performance issue > resolved before I start in on that. > > > --joey > > > > >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Joey McDonald <joey at scare.org> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Joey McDonald <joey at scare.org> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Pavan, >> >> Thanks for your quick reply, comments inline: >> >> >> >>> >> >>> 1. Are these baremetal systems or are they Virtual machines ? >> >> >> >> Bare metal systems. >> >> >> >>> >> >>> 2. What is the amount of RAM of each of these systems ? >> >> >> >> They all have 4194304 kB of memory. >> >> >> >>> >> >>> 3. How many CPUs do they have ? >> >> >> >> They each have 8 procs. >> >> >> >>> >> >>> 4. Can you also perform the dd on /gluster as opposed to /root to >> check >> >>> the backend performance ? >> >> >> >> Sure, here is that output: >> >> >> >> [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/gluster/dd_test.img >> bs=1M >> >> count=2000 >> >> 2000+0 records in >> >> 2000+0 records out >> >> 2097152000 bytes (2.1 GB) copied, 6.65193 seconds, 315 MB/s >> >> >> >>> >> >>> 5. What is your disk backend ? Is it direct attached or is it an array >> ? >> >> >> >> Direct attached, /gluster is /dev/sdb1, 1TB SATA drive (as is >> /dev/sda): >> >> [root at vm-container-0-0 ~]# hdparm -i /dev/sdb >> >> /dev/sdb: >> >> Model=WDC WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 , FwRev=03.00C06, >> SerialNo= >> >> WD-WMATV5311442 >> >> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs >> FmtGapReq >> >> } >> >> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=50 >> >> BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=32767kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?0? >> >> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 >> >> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} >> >> PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4 >> >> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 >> >> UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 >> >> AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled >> >> Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 >> >> ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6 ATA/ATAPI-7 >> >> * signifies the current active mode >> >> >> >>> >> >>> 6. What is the backend filesystem ? >> >> >> >> ext3 >> >> >> >>> >> >>> 7. Can you run a simple scp of about 10M between any two of these >> systems >> >>> and report the speed ? >> >> >> >> Sure, output: >> >> [root at vm-container-0-1 ~]# scp vm-container-0-0:/gluster/dd_test.img . >> >> Warning: Permanently added 'vm-container-0-0' (RSA) to the list of >> known >> >> hosts. >> >> root at vm-container-0-0's password: >> >> dd_test.img >> >> 100% >> 2000MB >> >> 39.2MB/s 00:51 >> >> >> >> --joey >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Gluster-users mailing list >> > Gluster-users at gluster.org >> > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users >> > >> > >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110810/6d9162c8/attachment.htm>