On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 01:10:40PM -0500, Jonathan Lefman wrote: > Thanks Brian. I tried what you recommended. At first I was very > encouraged when I saw things moving across the wire. But about 15 > minutes into the transfer things ground to a halt. I am currently > running across a GigE channel. Things were moving about 20-40 MB/s but > when things stopped moving the transfer rate is down in single digit > kb/s. Even doing a top level directory listing takes quite a while. Hmm. Maybe an strace on the client side (glusterfs FUSE process) and server side (glusterfsd) might give some clues?