I see both glusterfsd and glusterfs eat a good 70-100% of CPU while dd runs (see below) [root at lab0 ~]# gluster volume info Volume Name: testrdma Type: Replicate Volume ID: bf7b42aa-5680-4f5c-8027-d0a56cc5e65d Status: Started Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2 Transport-type: rdma Bricks: Brick1: 10.1.0.10:/glust Brick2: 10.1.0.11:/glust Options Reconfigured: diagnostics.count-fop-hits: on diagnostics.latency-measurement: on performance.io-thread-count: 64 [root at lab0 ~]# output from dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/test/test.file : 29992+0 records in 29992+0 records out 31448891392 bytes (31 GB) copied, 319.076 s, 98.6 MB/s [root at lab0 ~]# gluster volume profile testrdma info Brick: 10.1.0.10:/glust ----------------------- Cumulative Stats: Block Size: 131072b+ No. of Reads: 0 No. of Writes: 245984 %-latency Avg-latency Min-Latency Max-Latency No. of calls Fop --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ ---- 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 FORGET 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 5 RELEASE 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASEDIR 0.00 10.50 us 9.00 us 12.00 us 2 FLUSH 0.00 13.00 us 11.00 us 15.00 us 2 ENTRYLK 0.00 28.00 us 28.00 us 28.00 us 1 GETXATTR 0.00 59.50 us 18.00 us 101.00 us 2 READDIR 0.00 201.00 us 201.00 us 201.00 us 1 CREATE 0.00 56.00 us 18.00 us 93.00 us 5 LOOKUP 17.89 123.50 us 47.00 us 29371.00 us 239936 WRITE 23.06 79.60 us 2.00 us 41325.00 us 479877 FINODELK 59.06 227.42 us 18.00 us 52835.00 us 430226 FXATTROP Duration: 3790 seconds Data Read: 0 bytes Data Written: 32241614848 bytes Interval 3 Stats: Block Size: 131072b+ No. of Reads: 0 No. of Writes: 82837 %-latency Avg-latency Min-Latency Max-Latency No. of calls Fop --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ ---- 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASE 0.00 9.00 us 9.00 us 9.00 us 1 FLUSH 0.00 18.00 us 18.00 us 18.00 us 1 LOOKUP 0.00 28.00 us 28.00 us 28.00 us 1 GETXATTR 0.00 59.50 us 18.00 us 101.00 us 2 READDIR 16.61 129.30 us 47.00 us 23023.00 us 82837 WRITE 19.79 77.02 us 3.00 us 30051.00 us 165668 FINODELK 63.61 282.00 us 37.00 us 48149.00 us 145458 FXATTROP Duration: 472 seconds Data Read: 0 bytes Data Written: 10857611264 bytes Brick: 10.1.0.11:/glust ----------------------- Cumulative Stats: Block Size: 131072b+ No. of Reads: 0 No. of Writes: 245984 %-latency Avg-latency Min-Latency Max-Latency No. of calls Fop --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ ---- 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 FORGET 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 5 RELEASE 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASEDIR 0.00 13.00 us 12.00 us 14.00 us 2 FLUSH 0.00 28.00 us 28.00 us 28.00 us 1 GETXATTR 0.00 32.00 us 25.00 us 39.00 us 2 ENTRYLK 0.00 63.50 us 32.00 us 95.00 us 2 READDIR 0.00 179.00 us 179.00 us 179.00 us 1 CREATE 0.00 57.40 us 27.00 us 87.00 us 5 LOOKUP 7.76 177.75 us 40.00 us 54211.00 us 239936 WRITE 44.67 512.94 us 17.00 us 75783.00 us 478774 FXATTROP 47.57 544.98 us 2.00 us 99430.00 us 479877 FINODELK Duration: 3790 seconds Data Read: 0 bytes Data Written: 32241614848 bytes Interval 3 Stats: Block Size: 131072b+ No. of Reads: 0 No. of Writes: 82837 %-latency Avg-latency Min-Latency Max-Latency No. of calls Fop --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ ---- 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASE 0.00 14.00 us 14.00 us 14.00 us 1 FLUSH 0.00 27.00 us 27.00 us 27.00 us 1 LOOKUP 0.00 28.00 us 28.00 us 28.00 us 1 GETXATTR 0.00 63.50 us 32.00 us 95.00 us 2 READDIR 7.43 218.70 us 40.00 us 37871.00 us 82837 WRITE 45.45 670.49 us 37.00 us 75783.00 us 165308 FXATTROP 47.12 693.66 us 2.00 us 99430.00 us 165678 FINODELK Duration: 472 seconds Data Read: 0 bytes Data Written: 10857611264 bytes I'll open a bug once redhat gets out of maintenance mode. -Bryan