On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 11:43:27AM +0100, Carl Boberg wrote: > time find /mnt/nfs/<datadir> -type f -mtime -2 > > real 2m0.067s <-- > user 0m0.030s > sys 0m0.252s The -mtime -2 is forcing gluster to do a stat() on every file, and this makes gluster do a self-heal operation where it needs to access the file on both volumes: http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.1:_Triggering_Self-Heal_on_Replicate http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsgtE7Ph2_k Having said that, 2 minutes seems pretty slow. How many files are there in total, i.e. without the -mtime filter? Is it possible the NFS test had the inode data in cache, so was an unfair comparison? I suggest you do echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches (as root) on both client and server before each test. Regards, Brian.
