Max out the number of IO threads and apply a patch to make gluster more agressive about spawning threads as in this thread: http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/2012-February/009590.html (the above thread is actually pretty good for getting performance out of gluster with infiniband (I use IP over IB myself - could never get the native rDMA to be fast enough). On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Ionescu, A. <a.ionescu at student.vu.nl> wrote: > I tried this, but the performance is still the same (about ~100MB/s). > > A strange thing I noticed is that the node on which I run the benchmarking tool reports ~350 MB/s traffic on the loopback interface. > > Does anyone have any other suggestions? > > Thanks, > Adrian > ________________________________________ > From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org [gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] on behalf of Sabuj Pattanayek [sabujp at gmail.com] > Sent: 19 April 2012 22:32 > To: gluster-users at gluster.org > Subject: Re: Performance issues with striped volume over ? ? ? ?Infiniband > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Ionescu, A. <a.ionescu at student.vu.nl> wrote: >> Thanks for your answer, Sabuj. However, I am not sure I understand what you mean by trying with ipoib. >> Do you mean specifying "transport tcp" and using the ipoib ips/hostnames for the bricks? >> If you manage to find a way to overcome this performance limitation, please share with us your solution. > > Yes. > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
