> Mounted with default options by Gluster-FUSE. Gluster-FUSE client takes care of replication. So the client makes sure the data is sent to all server nodes. So with a replicate count of 2 the traffic from the client node doubles. With 3 replica's you triple network load from a client perspective. So a client maxes out around 30 MB/sec with a 1Gbit uplink. You could try to trunk the network on your client but 10Gbit ethernet ( i suggest to use fiber, because of latency issues with copper 10Gbit) or Infiniband would be the way to go for high throughput. Before going that way I would first make sure your real-life load is indeed bandwidth limited and not IOPS limited. Copying a few files and looking at the speed usually does not say a lot about real-life perfomance. (unless real-life is also just one person copying big files around) Most workloads I see hit IOPS limits a long time before throughput. Cheers, Robert
