Thank you for the prompt and insightful answer, James. My remarks are inline. 1. Can we mount a GlusterFS on a client and expect it to provide > sustained throughput near wirespeed? <No> > In your scenario, what were the maximum read speeds that you observed? > 3. Does it put extra pressure on the client? <What do you mean by > pressure? My clients (HP ProLiant DL360 G5 Quad Core with 32GB RAM) show up > to 2GB of memory usage when the native Gluster client is used for mounts ? > but that is dependent on what you set the client cache max for ? in my case, > 2GB. CPU utilization is usually negligible in my systems, network bandwidth > utilization and I/O throughput ? depend on what the files sizes and access > patterns look like> > Thx for the insight. Can you describe your current deployment a bit more, like configs of the storage nodes, and the client nodes, and what type of application you are using it for? Don't want to be too intrusive, just to get an idea on what others are doing. Thank you once again for your remarks. Cheers, HASSAN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20110511/3de44fb6/attachment.htm>
