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Re: [Gluster-devel] Performance as compared to NFS


From: Paul Jochum
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] Performance as compared to NFS
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:43:21 -0500
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Hi Avati:

I turned on write-behind on the client, and the rsync times went up about 475% (from 1m6s without write-behind to 5m15s with write-behind on average over 3 test runs).

thanks,

Paul

Anand Avati wrote:
Paul,
 what was  your rsync time with write-behind loaded on the client side?

avati

On 9/8/07, *Paul Jochum* < address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:

    Hi All:

        Time to move from functionality ( i.e. it is working), to
    performance
    (need to speed it up now).

        Basically, I have a one server that can run NFS and gluster,
    and one
    client that can access that server (either NFS or Glusterfs).  In a
    simple set of tests (time of rsyncs, and then time of rm's), I see
    the
    following:

    For NFS:  rsync time is 0m52.304s and rm time is 0m12.615s

    For Glusterfs: rsync time is 1m29.312s and rm time is 0m33.901s
    (these were the fastest gluster times, slowest for the rsync was
    5m23.9s, depending on the perfomance translators I used)

    So, how do I improve Gluster, which is running about twice as slow
    as NFS?

    Here is my background info

    *Gluster Server:*
    No messages in the log files (either gluster's log file or
    /var/log/messages)

    glusterfsd -V
    glusterfs 1.3.1

    spec file:
    volume brick
      type storage/posix
      option directory /nfs/gluster
    end-volume
    volume server
      type protocol/server
      option transport-type tcp/server
      subvolumes brick
      option auth.ip.brick.allow *
    end-volume

    machine's OS = Scientific Linux SL release 3.0.8 (SL)
    2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Oct 19 10:38:33 CDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64
    x86_64 GNU/Linux

    Gluster Client:
    No messages in the log files (either gluster's log file or
    /var/log/messages)

    glusterfs -V
    glusterfs 1.3.1

    fuse version is fuse-2.7.0-glfs3

    spec file:
    volume client
      type protocol/client
      option transport-type tcp/client     # for TCP/IP transport
      option remote-host 135.1.29.152 <http://135.1.29.152>       # IP
    address of the remote brick
      option remote-subvolume brick        # name of the remote volume
    end-volume
    #### Add readahead feature
    volume readahead
      type performance/read-ahead
      option page-size 128KB     # unit in bytes
      subvolumes client
    end-volume
    ### Add IO-Threads feature
    volume iothreads
      type performance/io-threads
      option thread-count 4         # deault is 1
      option cache-size 64MB
      subvolumes readahead
    end-volume

    machine's OS = CentOS release 5 (Final)
    2.6.18-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.028stab039.1.prj4 #1 SMP Mon Aug 13
    16:31:27 CDT
    2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

    thanks,

    Paul Jochum


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