hi, all: When I was testing glusterfs performance by iozone with only ONE machine, I got the following chart: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/33453649/perf_htm_m19da4047.jpg Y axis represent disk throughput in kb/s. X axis represent test cases. It is obvious that R+W case has the worst read performance, R+W means you turn on both Read-ahead xlator and Write-behind xlator. Unfortunately, that`s the default configuration of glusterfs. Though I run glusterfs only on one machine, I think this result explains something. Maybe you have more insight on it. More info: ------------------------- cmdline: ./iozone -a -n 16g -g 16g -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 3 -f /mnt/iozone -Rb no-rh.xls -y 4096k CPU: intel i3-2120 X 4 RAM: 8G Glusterfs Version: 3.3 Volume info: Volume Name: abc Type: Distribute Volume ID: 6e0104f1-d32a-4ed4-b011-d29ccf27abe1 Status: Started Number of Bricks: 1 Transport-type: tcp Bricks: Brick1: 10.1.82.224:/abc Options Reconfigured: performance.io-cache: off performance.quick-read: off performance.read-ahead: on performance.write-behind: on -------------------------------------------- Best Regards. Jules Wang. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20121214/be35b3d6/attachment.html>