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Re: [Gluster-devel] performance improvements
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Hans Einar Gautun |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] performance improvements |
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Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:53:41 +0200 |
tir, 23,.10.2007 kl. 10.02 -0700, skrev Kevan Benson:
> Vincent Régnard wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are presently trying to tune our non-gluster configuration to
> > improve glusterfs performance. My config is gluster
> > 1.3.7/fuse2.7.0-glfs5, linux 2.6.16.55. We have 3 clients and 3
> > servers on a 100Mb network with 5ms round trip between clients and
> > servers. The 3 clients replicate with afr on client side over the 3
> > servers.
> > I can imagine that reducing the roundtrip between servers might help ?
> > But I cannot actually do anything for that. The only thing I might be
> > able to do is to configure some QOS. Have you any suggestion about how
> > we should do that ? Would giving priority to tcp/6996 between clients
> > and servers really help ?
>
Vincent:
It's a big roundtrip. I have 0.1 or less, but it's GB NIC's and switch.
But it's cheap this days.;)
> Separate network connections to each AFR subvoume. VLAN your switches
> and implement separate logical networks for each connection to the AFR
> subvolumes using secondary (or even tertiary) nics in each client. You
> can effectively double or triple your throughput while increasing
> redundancy.
Kevan:
Is this better than bonding - or equal?
Jumbo frames are also good for speed and lowering the server and switch
load.
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