Thanks for you help! I'll need to figure out a way to recreate the volume as replica 2 without messing with the running vms. On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Bryan Whitehead <driver at megahappy.net>wrote: > I just want to say that trying to run a VM on almost any glusterfs > mounted fuse is going to suck when using 1G nic cards. > > That said your setup looks fine except you need to change "replica 4" > to "replica 2". I'm assuming you want redundancy and speed. > Replicating to all 4 bricks is probably not what you wanted. By > setting replica to 2 you'll be able to lose any 1 of the 4 bricks and > still run without data missing. > > gluster volume create replica 2 <... list all 4 bricks> > > > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski > <skraw at ithnet.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 03:13:10 -0700 > > Robert Hajime Lanning <lanning at lanning.cc> wrote: > > > >> On 04/09/13 01:17, Eyal Marantenboim wrote: > >> > Hi Bryan, > >> > > >> > We have 1G nics on all our servers. > >> > Do you think that changing our design to distribute-replicate will > >> > improve the performance? > >> > > >> > Anything in the gluster performance settings that you think I should > change? > >> > >> With GlusterFS, almost all the processing is in the client side. This > >> includes replication. So, when you have "replica 4", the client will be > >> duplicating all transactions 4 times, synchronously. Your 1G ethernet > >> just became 256M. > > > > Let me drop in that no clear mind does it this way. Obviously one would > give > > the client more physical network cards, best choice as many as there are > > replications, and do the subnetting accordingly. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Stephan > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org > > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130411/792cccc7/attachment.html>
