On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Marcus Bointon <marcus at synchromedia.co.uk>wrote: > On 28 Jul 2013, at 18:12, Anand Avati <anand.avati at gmail.com> wrote: > > What is your typical workload, and what kind of tests did you compare > native client perf against NFS perf? > > > Low load, two web servers sharing a content area of < 500M. Even with a > single client, performance with native client is slow, i.e. more than about > 1 request/sec for a 100k image was enough to make the web server saturate > iowait. NFS performance is not amazing, but it's definitely less bad (and > there are lots of references in the list archives on NFS being better for > small-file performance). Local disk only is orders of magnitude faster. > I've not tested whether the performance has improved under 3.4, but frankly > having it actually work reliably is more important. > You might want to give the native client another shot by setting "option max-file-size 128KB" in the quick-read section of the client volfile in /var/lib/glusterd/<volname>/*fuse*.vol (there will be two). Unfotunately this is not settable through the CLI. Avati -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://supercolony.gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20130728/5fe3fdb6/attachment.html>
