Hi Samuel,
This problem is important for us to fix. We have heard of this from 2-3 users. It seems to be a combination of apache, php session files shared by multiple apache servers and locking ( or lock translator ).
We have tried very hard to reproduce this with test programs that read/write very small files across multiple clients ( to mimic behaviour of shared php session files ). We even tried this using sample programs ( even jmeter ) using php sessions - but we were not able to reproduce it.
Are you able to reproduce it easily ? If so, we would request you to help us reproduce this inhouse or else help us with some tracing from your system - ( disclaimer - the tracing could slow down the system a bit :-) ) ..
Maybe we can start with using your test script - please let us know what gluster config, machine config/type etc you used so we can try something as close as possible.
Thank you for your help in making the product better.
Regards,
Tejas.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel Hassine" <address@hidden>
To: "Gluster List" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Yann Autissier" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2010 8:14:34 PM GMT +05:30 Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi
Subject: [Gluster-devel] Feedback - Problem with the locks feature
Hi all,
Just a little feedback about a special using of GlusterFS.
We are hosting about 15 000 websites on an infrastructure containing a
big files server. We just change our files sharing system from NFS to
GlusterFS. So we are using a simple distributed GlusterFS for the
websites files. We are alo using a second GlusterFSd instance (on an
alternate port) in order to export a special partition for PHP sessions.
On the first partition, it seems to work very well for reading and
writing. But on the second one, with a "classic" server configuration
(posix vol, locks vol, performance vol and server vol), the file system
freezes immediatly. After some tests, we found that it works fine
without the locks volume.
But after some other tests on the first GlusterFS, we discover that the
same problem could occured with a script that writes many little files
on the FS. It is the same problem with the last version of ezpublish,
the cache generation failed).
Do you think it could be fixed in the next versions or just bypassing
the locks translator is a good solution?
Thanks for your answers.
Sam
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