Re: Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs

Jo Goossens <jo.goossens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:23:33 +0200

Title: RE: [Gluster-users] Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs

Hello Vijay,

What do you mean exactly? What info is missing?

PS: I already found out that for this particular test all the difference is made by : negative-timeout=600 , when removing it, it's much much slower again.

Regards
Jo

-----Original message-----
From:	Vijay Bellur <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:	Tue 11-07-2017 18:16
Subject:	Re:  Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs
To:	Jo Goossens <jo.goossens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 
CC:	gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx; Joe Julian <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; 

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Jo Goossens <jo.goossens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
               Hello Joe,

I just did a mount like this (added the bold):

mount -t glusterfs -o attribute-timeout=600,entry-timeout=600,negative-timeout=600,fopen-keep-cache,use-readdirp=no,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterxxx.log 192.168.140.41:/www /var/www

Results:

root@app1:~/smallfile-master# ./smallfile_cli.py  --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41 --threads 8 --files 5000 --file-size 64 --record-size 64
smallfile version 3.0
                           hosts in test : ['192.168.140.41']
                   top test directory(s) : ['/var/www/test']
                               operation : cleanup
                            files/thread : 5000
                                 threads : 8
           record size (KB, 0 = maximum) : 64
                          file size (KB) : 64
                  file size distribution : fixed
                           files per dir : 100
                            dirs per dir : 10
              threads share directories? : N
                         filename prefix :
                         filename suffix :
             hash file number into dir.? : N
                     fsync after modify? : N
          pause between files (microsec) : 0
                    finish all requests? : Y
                              stonewall? : Y
                 measure response times? : N
                            verify read? : Y
                                verbose? : False
                          log to stderr? : False
                           ext.attr.size : 0
                          ext.attr.count : 0
               permute host directories? : N
                remote program directory : /root/smallfile-master
               network thread sync. dir. : /var/www/test/network_shared
starting all threads by creating starting gate file /var/www/test/network_shared/starting_gate.tmp
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 00,elapsed = 1.232004,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 01,elapsed = 1.148738,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 02,elapsed = 1.130913,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 03,elapsed = 1.183088,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 04,elapsed = 1.220752,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 05,elapsed = 1.228039,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 06,elapsed = 1.216787,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 07,elapsed = 1.229036,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok
total threads = 8
total files = 40000
100.00% of requested files processed, minimum is  70.00
1.232004 sec elapsed time
32467.428972 files/sec

root@app1:~/smallfile-master# ./smallfile_cli.py  --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41 --threads 8 --files 50000 --file-size 64 --record-size 64
smallfile version 3.0
                           hosts in test : ['192.168.140.41']
                   top test directory(s) : ['/var/www/test']
                               operation : cleanup
                            files/thread : 50000
                                 threads : 8
           record size (KB, 0 = maximum) : 64
                          file size (KB) : 64
                  file size distribution : fixed
                           files per dir : 100
                            dirs per dir : 10
              threads share directories? : N
                         filename prefix :
                         filename suffix :
             hash file number into dir.? : N
                     fsync after modify? : N
          pause between files (microsec) : 0
                    finish all requests? : Y
                              stonewall? : Y
                 measure response times? : N
                            verify read? : Y
                                verbose? : False
                          log to stderr? : False
                           ext.attr.size : 0
                          ext.attr.count : 0
               permute host directories? : N
                remote program directory : /root/smallfile-master
               network thread sync. dir. : /var/www/test/network_shared
starting all threads by creating starting gate file /var/www/test/network_shared/starting_gate.tmp
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 00,elapsed = 4.242312,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 01,elapsed = 4.250831,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 02,elapsed = 3.771269,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 03,elapsed = 4.060653,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 04,elapsed = 3.880653,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 05,elapsed = 3.847107,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 06,elapsed = 3.895537,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 07,elapsed = 3.966394,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok
total threads = 8
total files = 400000
100.00% of requested files processed, minimum is  70.00
4.250831 sec elapsed time
94099.245073 files/sec
root@app1:~/smallfile-master#

As you can see it's now crazy fast, I think close to or faster than nfs !! What the hell!??!

I'm so exited I already post. Any suggestions for those parameters? I will do additional testing over here , because this is ridiculous. That woud mean defaults or no good at all...

Would it be possible to profile the client [1] with defaults and the set of options used now? That could help in understanding the performance delta better.

Thanks,
Vijay

[1] https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Performance%20Testing/#client-side-profiling 

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