For what its worth : This is what I get in a 1CPU 2GBRAM Vmware guest VM thats running on my desktop. '/tmp' is a 'local' xfs lvm2 fs, and '/mnt/glusterfs/0/' is a glusterfs mountpoint, where servernode and clientnode are the same vm. Not blazingly fast as its a vm on a desktop, but noticably slower than doing a comparable 'cp' on a non-glusterfs mountpoint. - John Smith # gluster volume profile patchy start Starting volume profile on patchy has been successful [root at host1 glusterfs]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1GB count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1000000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 12.7146 s, 78.6 MB/s # time cp /tmp/1GB /tmp/1GB.1 real 0m17.574s user 0m0.014s sys 0m6.142s # time cp /tmp/1GB /mnt/glusterfs/0/ real 0m24.628s user 0m0.019s sys 0m7.736s [root at host1 glusterfs]# gluster volume profile patchy info Brick: host1.localdomain:/d/backends/patchy ------------------------------------------- Cumulative Stats: Block Size: 32768b+ 131072b+ 262144b+ No. of Reads: 0 0 0 No. of Writes: 1 7625 2 %-latency Avg-latency Min-Latency Max-Latency No. of calls Fop --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ ---- 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASE 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASEDIR 0.00 58.00 us 56.00 us 60.00 us 2 STATFS 0.00 177.00 us 177.00 us 177.00 us 1 FLUSH 0.01 793.00 us 793.00 us 793.00 us 1 CREATE 0.01 127.22 us 45.00 us 394.00 us 9 LOOKUP 99.98 1292.19 us 177.00 us 200453.00 us 7628 WRITE Duration: 76 seconds Data Read: 0 bytes Data Written: 1000000000 bytes Interval 0 Stats: Block Size: 32768b+ 131072b+ 262144b+ No. of Reads: 0 0 0 No. of Writes: 1 7625 2 %-latency Avg-latency Min-Latency Max-Latency No. of calls Fop --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ------------ ---- 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASE 0.00 0.00 us 0.00 us 0.00 us 1 RELEASEDIR 0.00 58.00 us 56.00 us 60.00 us 2 STATFS 0.00 177.00 us 177.00 us 177.00 us 1 FLUSH 0.01 793.00 us 793.00 us 793.00 us 1 CREATE 0.01 127.22 us 45.00 us 394.00 us 9 LOOKUP 99.98 1292.19 us 177.00 us 200453.00 us 7628 WRITE Duration: 76 seconds Data Read: 0 bytes Data Written: 1000000000 bytes