On 10/20/2011 06:29 PM, Luis Cerezo wrote: > Hello gluster-verse! > > I'm about to see if GlusterFS can handle a large amount of clients, this > was not at all in plans when we initially selected and setup our current > configuration. > > What sort of experience do you (the collective "you" as in y'all) have > with a large client to storage brick server ratio? (~1330:1) Where do > you see things going awnry? We've had up to 300 clients per brick ratios in the past. For large files, we saw lots of contention. Contention drastically reduces performance. > Most of this will be reads and locks on small files and dirs. our setup > is 3xstorage node servers in a pure distribute config. You do not want to even consider small files ... this is not a good use case for a cluster file system in general. The only real way to deal with this is to put your backing file system on SSD or Flash, and have a very fast network. Even then performance is not going to be that good. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615
