try using xfs instead of ext4.
also, for dd, i use the following options to keep each run "true"
dd if=/dev/zero of=/glustermount/blah bs=1M count=10000 conv=fsync oflag=sync
I didn't see any sync's after the tar/rm commands...
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Chris Webb <chris at arachsys.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've been considering using GlusterFS as backing storage for one of our
> applications, and wanted to get a feel for its reliability and performance on a
> toy test cluster.
>
> I took two 16-core Opteron 6128 machines running stock linux 3.2.2 kernels
> with sata-backed ext4 filesystems to use as backing storage for a test
> glusterfs, mounted with default options:
>
> ?# grep store /proc/mounts
> ?/dev/sda2 /store ext4 rw,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
>
> The machines are connected with gigabit ethernet cross-over.
>
> I built the software from the glusterfs-3.2.5.tar.gz with no special configure
> options except for a few --XXXdir changes to match our filesystem layout and
> --enable-fusermount to avoid building fuse userspace specially.
>
> I created /etc/glusterfs and /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol:
>
> ?# cat /etc/glusterfs/glusterd.vol
> ?volume management
> ? ? ?type mgmt/glusterd
> ? ? ?option working-directory /etc/glusterd
> ? ? ?option transport-type socket
> ? ? ?option transport.socket.keepalive-time 10
> ? ? ?option transport.socket.keepalive-interval 2
> ?end-volume
> ?#
>
> and started glusterd. I then taught the machines about each other's existence:
>
> ?# gluster peer probe 172.16.101.11
> ?Probe successful
> ?# gluster peer status
> ?Number of Peers: 1
>
> ?Hostname: 172.16.101.11
> ?Uuid: 52e9f1a2-8404-4945-a769-4b569ec982ed
> ?State: Accepted peer request (Connected)
>
> and then created and mounted a mirror volume:
>
> ?# gluster volume create test replica 2 transport tcp 172.16.101.{9,11}:/store
> ?Creation of volume test has been successful. Please start the volume to access data.
> ?# gluster volume start test
> ?Starting volume test has been successful
> ?# mount -t glusterfs localhost:/test /mnt/test
> ?#
>
> Mounting it on both machines, I can see that a file I add on one appears on the
> other and so on. Great! Write performance streaming to a large file is fine
> compared to a local write:
>
> ?# time bash -c 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/test/bigfile bs=1M count=1000; sync'
> ?1000+0 records in
> ?1000+0 records out
> ?1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 11.4892 s, 91.3 MB/s
>
> ?real ? ?0m11.531s
> ?user ? ?0m0.000s
> ?sys ? ? 0m1.085s
>
> vs
>
> ?# time bash -c 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/store2/bigfile bs=1M count=1000; sync'
> ?1000+0 records in
> ?1000+0 records out
> ?1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 10.67 s, 98.3 MB/s
>
> ?real ? ?0m10.912s
> ?user ? ?0m0.000s
> ?sys ? ? 0m1.753s
>
> However, if I try a simple metadata-intensive benchmark such as unpacking and
> deleting a linux kernel source tree, performance is a factor of eleven worse
> than local storage:
>
> ?# time bash -c 'tar xfz ~/linux-3.3-rc7.tgz; rm -rf linux-3.3-rc7'
>
> ?real ? ?4m20.493s
> ?user ? ?0m24.835s
> ?sys ? ? 0m7.119s
>
> vs
>
> ?# time bash -c 'tar xfz ~/linux-3.3-rc7.tgz; rm -rf linux-3.3-rc7'
>
> ?real ? ?0m23.196s
> ?user ? ?0m20.775s
> ?sys ? ? 0m2.287s
>
> Is this normal, or do I have something badly misconfigured? Is there anything I
> can do to improve performance when creating and deleting small files on
> glusterfs? I see that I already have client-side write-behind in the default
> /etc/glusterd/vols/test/test-fuse.vol translator stack that was created for me,
> and have tried playing with the parameters a bit without having any real
> effect.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Chris.
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