Re: What application workloads are too slow for you on gluster?

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Not sure about that for the web hosting workload, but that would be very
interesting for our VM hosting service. I read the topic about that,
if there are docs about how to set that up I might test it next time
I have to setup a VM cluster.

On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 12:53:36PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
>    If doing a VM on top of gluster is the kind of solution you are resorting
>    to. Do you think using gluster-block would be a good idea here? It is
>    still in development state. We are working on how to get snapshot
>    functionalities. But if you guys want to test and give us feedback, that
>    would be very helpful and we can move very quickly to get it in GA state.
>    On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:13 PM, AndrA(c) Bauer <abauer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      Dito...
>      Am 24.09.2016 um 17:29 schrieb Kevin Lemonnier:
>      > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 07:48:53PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri
>      wrote:
>      >>A  A  hi,
>      >>A  A  A A A A AA  I want to get a sense of the kinds of applications
>      you tried
>      >>A  A  out on gluster but you had to find other alternatives because
>      gluster
>      >>A  A  didn't perform well enough or the soultion would become too
>      expensive if
>      >>A  A  you move to all SSD kind of setup.
>      >
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > Web Hosting is what comes to mind for me. Applications like
>      prestashop, wordpress,
>      > some custom apps ... I know that I try to use DRBD as much as I can
>      for that since
>      > GlusterFS makes the sites just way too slow to use, I tried both fuse
>      and NFS (not
>      > ganesha since I'm on debian everytime though, don't know if that
>      matters).
>      > Using things like OPCache and moving the application's cache outside
>      of the volume
>      > are helping a lot but that brings a whole loads of other problems you
>      can't always
>      > deal with, so most of the time I just don't use gluster for that.
>      >
>      > Last time I really had to use gluster to host a web app I ended up
>      installing a VM
>      > with a disk stored on glusterfs and configuring a simple NFS server,
>      that was way
>      > faster than mounting a gluster volume directly on the web servers. At
>      least that
>      > proves VM hosting works pretty well now though !
>      >
>      > Now I can't try tiering, unfortunatly I don't have the option of
>      having hardware for
>      > that, but maybe that would indeed solve it if it makes looking up lots
>      of tiny files
>      > quicker.
>      >
>      >
>      >
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