Hi Amar, here is my benchmark, pls help me to evaluate it. 1. [Env - Storage servers] Gluster version: 3.3 beta3 OS : CentOS 6.1 2* Server : CPU : E5506 @ 2.13GHz 4*core MEM: 16G Disk : 1T * 12 Net: bond0 = 4 * 1Gb 2. [Env - Testing clients] OS: CentOS 6.1 6* Server: CPU: 5150 @ 2.66GHz MEM: 8G Disk: RAID0 = 1T * 3 Net: bond0 = 2 * 1Gb 3. [Env - Switch] 1 * H3C Switch 4. [Env - Testing Tools] iozone for cluster, clients is rsh cluster. 5. Volume info Type: distributed - stripe bricks: 6 * 4 = 24 6. Iozone command: ./iozone -r 1m -s 50g -t 25 -i 0 -i 1 -+m /CZFS/client_list -R -b report.xls -c -C -+k -e then my benchmark is : " Initial write " 424258.41 KB " Rewrite " 458250.97 KB " Read " 671079.30 KB " Re-read " 797509.20 KB here I have 4 Questions: Q1: Why the Read is better than write, is ok? Q2: Refer to experience, This benchmark is best , good or bad? Q3: How to optimize the gluster to impove the benchmark? Q4: How can I get other friends' benchmark, which I use to compared? Tks very much. Regards, Lawrence. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120517/970465b2/attachment.htm>