Joel, What are you using for disk under the system? - Dean On Oct 11, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Joel Young <jdy at cryregarder.com> wrote: > Re home directory tuning... > > Any suggestions? We are still getting extraordinary slowness in using > gluster for home directories. SVN checkouts to the volume are very > slow, configure scripts are very slow. > > The cluster hardware is overspecced. Each of the four nodes are > connected via 10GB ethernet, have 24-64 cores, and from 128GB to > 512GB. > > Thanks! > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Joel Young <jdy at cryregarder.com> wrote: >> I've got a HPC type set up with four nodes and a >> distributed-replicated configuration. Performing developer type >> actions is disfunctionally slow on the volume. Below is the >> configuration: >> >> Volume Name: home >> Type: Distributed-Replicate >> Volume ID: 83fa39a6-6e68-4e1c-8fae-3c3e30b1bd66 >> Status: Started >> Number of Bricks: 2 x 2 = 4 >> Transport-type: tcp >> Bricks: >> Brick1: ir0:/lhome/gluster_home >> Brick2: ir1:/lhome/gluster_home >> Brick3: ir2:/lhome/gluster_home >> Brick4: ir3:/raid/gluster_home >> Options Reconfigured: >> server.statedump-path: /tmp >> performance.cache-size: 512MB >> performance.client-io-threads: on >> >> For example, configure runs take tens of minutes instead of fractions >> of minutes. >> >> I've tried setting lookup-unhashed to off or no without a significant >> performance change. >> >> Does anyone have any performance tunings or suggestions for making >> gluster based home directories usable for developers? >> >> Also, the documentation is unclear as to if lookup-unhashed should be >> set to yes or on, vs no or off. Some things indicate one way, some >> the other. boolean options should no allow multiple values to be set. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Joel > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > Gluster-users at gluster.org > http://supercolony.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
