Thanks Pranith for the details. So with that option one would be trading data consistency with performance. I am now interested to hear about Nico's new tests with this option disabled...
On Thursday, February 12, 2015 9:23 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/12/2015 01:17 PM, ML mail wrote:
By default replication translator does fsyncs on the files at certain times so that it doesn't lose data when the filesystem crashes and changelogs that afr stores are corrupted. This is introduced from 3.5.x on wards.Dear Pranith
I would be interested to know what the cluster.ensure-durability off option does, could you explain or point to the documentation?
Pranith
RegardsML
On Thursday, February 12, 2015 8:24 AM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri <pkarampu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 02/12/2015 04:37 AM, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> switching from 3.4.2 to 3.6.2 reduces our average test performance dramatically.
>
> Our test setup: directly connected 1 GBit/s hosts setup with:
>
> rm -rf /home/gluster/.glusterfs/
> rm /home/gluster/*
> setfattr -x trusted.glusterfs.volume-id /home/gluster/
> setfattr -x trusted.gfid /home/gluster/
> gluster volume create xfs-plain replica 2 transport tcp vmhost1-cluster1:/home/gluster vmhost2-cluster1:/home/gluster
> gluster volume start xfs-plain
>
> Afterwards we run our near real world test
>
> mount -t glusterfs vmhost1-cluster1:/xfs-plain /mnt/gluster/
> while true; do dd if=redmine-from-ceph-20150204 of=/mnt/gluster/testvm bs=1M; rm /mnt/gluster/testvm; done
>
> The results are
>
> 3.4.2: ~71-72 MiB/s [ubuntu 14.04]
> 3.6.2: ~59-64 MiB/s [gluster-3.6 ppa]
>
> We have removed 3.6.2 and re-installed 3.4.2 and can consistently reproduce
> these numbers over hours of testing.
Could you repeat the test on 3.6.2 with 'volume set <volname>
cluster.ensure-durability off' option and post the results.
Pranith
>
> Is there any configuration change that we need to incorporate to run
> 3.6.2 faster or is this a known problem?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Nico
>
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