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>    4. Re: iscsi with gluster (Liam Slusser)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:38:11 -0600 (CST)
> From: Raghavendra Bhat <raghavendrab...@gluster.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Memory usage high on server sides
> To: Chris Jin <ch...@pikicentral.com>
> Cc: gluster-users <gluster-users@gluster.org>
> Message-ID: <888786402.1758748.1271911091465.javamail.r...@mb2>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> http://patches.gluster.com/patch/3151/
> Can you please apply this patch and see if this works for you?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Raghavendra Bhat
> 
> > Tejas,
> > 
> > We still have hundreds of GBs to copy, and have not put the new file
> > system into the test. So far the clients works all fine. I mean the
> > commands like ls, mkdir, touch, and etc.
> > 
> > Thanks again for your time.
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 23:04 -0600, Tejas N. Bhise wrote:
> > > Chris,
> > > 
> > > By the way, after the copy is done, how is the system responding to
> > > regular access ? In the sense, was the problem with copy also
> > > carried forward as more trouble seen with subsequent access of
> > > data over glusterfs ?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Tejas.
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Chris Jin" <ch...@pikicentral.com>
> > > To: "Tejas N. Bhise" <te...@gluster.com>
> > > Cc: "gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:48:42 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Memory usage high on server sides
> > > 
> > > Hi Tejas,
> > > 
> > > > Problems you saw - 
> > > > 
> > > > 1) High memory usage on client where gluster volume is mounted
> > > 
> > > Memory usage for clients is 0% after copying.
> > > $ps auxf
> > > USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
> > COMMAND
> > > root     19692  1.3  0.0 262148  6980 ?        Ssl  Apr12
> > > 61:33 /sbin/glusterfs --log-level=NORMAL
> > > --volfile=/u2/git/modules/shared/glusterfs/clients/r2/c2.vol
> > /gfs/r2/f2
> > > 
> > > > 2) High memory usage on server
> > > Yes.
> > > $ps auxf
> > > USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
> > COMMAND
> > > root     26472  2.2 29.1 718100 600260 ?       Ssl  Apr09 184:09
> > > glusterfsd -f /etc/glusterfs/servers/r2/f1.vol
> > > root     26485  1.8 39.8 887744 821384 ?       Ssl  Apr09 157:16
> > > glusterfsd -f /etc/glusterfs/servers/r2/f2.vol
> > > 
> > > > 3) 2 days to copy 300 GB data
> > > More than 700GB. There are two folders. The first one is copied to
> > > server 1 and server 2, and the second one is copied to server 2 and
> > > server 3. The vol files are below.
> > > 
> > > > About the config, can you provide the following for both old and
> > new systems -
> > > > 
> > > > 1) OS and kernel level on gluster servers and clients
> > > Debian Kernel 2.6.18-6-amd64
> > > 
> > > $uname -a
> > > Linux fs2 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 19 04:30:56 UTC 2008 x86_64
> > > GNU/Linux
> > > 
> > > > 2) volume file from servers and clients
> > > 
> > > #####Server Vol file (f1.vol)
> > > # The same settings for f2.vol and f3.vol, just different dirs and
> > ports
> > > # f1 f3 for Server 1, f1 f2 for Server 2, f2 f3 for Server 3
> > > volume posix1
> > >   type storage/posix
> > >   option directory /gfs/r2/f1
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume locks1
> > >     type features/locks
> > >     subvolumes posix1
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume brick1
> > >     type performance/io-threads
> > >     option thread-count 8
> > >     subvolumes locks1
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume server-tcp
> > >     type protocol/server
> > >     option transport-type tcp
> > >     option auth.addr.brick1.allow 192.168.0.*
> > >     option transport.socket.listen-port 6991
> > >     option transport.socket.nodelay on
> > >     subvolumes brick1
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > #####Client Vol file (c1.vol)
> > > # The same settings for c2.vol and c3.vol
> > > # s2 s3 for c2, s3 s1 for c3
> > > volume s1
> > >     type protocol/client
> > >     option transport-type tcp
> > >     option remote-host 192.168.0.31
> > >     option transport.socket.nodelay on
> > >     option transport.remote-port 6991
> > >     option remote-subvolume brick1
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume s2
> > >     type protocol/client
> > >     option transport-type tcp
> > >     option remote-host 192.168.0.32
> > >     option transport.socket.nodelay on
> > >     option transport.remote-port 6991
> > >     option remote-subvolume brick1
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume mirror
> > >     type cluster/replicate
> > >     option data-self-heal off
> > >     option metadata-self-heal off
> > >     option entry-self-heal off
> > >     subvolumes s1 s2
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume writebehind
> > >     type performance/write-behind
> > >     option cache-size 100MB
> > >     option flush-behind off
> > >     subvolumes mirror
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume iocache
> > >     type performance/io-cache
> > >     option cache-size `grep 'MemTotal' /proc/meminfo  | awk '{print
> > $2 *
> > > 0.2 / 1024}' | cut -f1 -d.`MB
> > >     option cache-timeout 1
> > >     subvolumes writebehind
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume quickread
> > >     type performance/quick-read
> > >     option cache-timeout 1
> > >     option max-file-size 256Kb
> > >     subvolumes iocache
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > volume statprefetch
> > >     type performance/stat-prefetch
> > >     subvolumes quickread
> > > end-volume
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 3) Filesystem type of backend gluster subvolumes
> > > ext3
> > > 
> > > > 4) How close to full the backend subvolumes are
> > > New 2T hard disks for each server.
> > > 
> > > > 5) The exact copy command .. did you mount the volumes from
> > > > old and new system on a single machine and did cp or used rsync
> > > > or some other method ? If something more than just a cp, please
> > > > send the exact command line you used.
> > > The old file system uses DRBD and NFS.
> > > The exact command is
> > > sudo cp -R -v -p -P /nfsmounts/nfs3/photo .
> > > 
> > > > 6) How many files/directories ( tentative ) in that 300GB data (
> > would help in 
> > > > trying to reproduce inhouse with a smaller test bed ).
> > > I cannot tell, but the file sizes are between 1KB to 200KB, average
> > > around 20KB.
> > > 
> > > > 7) Was there other load on the new or old system ?
> > > The old systems are still used for web servers.
> > > The new systems are on the same servers but different hard disks. 
> > > 
> > > > 8) Any other patterns you noticed.
> > > There is once that one client tried to connect one server with
> > external
> > > IP address.
> > > Using distribute translator across all three mirrors will make
> > system
> > > twice slower than using three mounted folders.
> > > 
> > > Is this information enough?
> > > 
> > > Please take a look.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Gluster-users mailing list
> > Gluster-users@gluster.org
> > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:26:19 +0530
> From: harris narang <harish.narang2...@gmail.com>
> Subject: [Gluster-users] iscsi with gluster
> To: gluster-users@gluster.org
> Message-ID:
>       <n2v9e276b21004212256q2b2a3b83t2b87a5fd7ee1c...@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> Dear sir/madam,
> i want to use gluster with iscsi .please suggest me weather it is possible
> or not.
> 
> with regards
> harish narang
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:58:38 +1000
> From: Chris Jin <ch...@pikicentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Memory usage high on server sides
> To: Raghavendra Bhat <raghavendrab...@gluster.com>
> Cc: gluster-users <gluster-users@gluster.org>
> Message-ID: <1271915918.4792.1.ca...@chris-ubuntu.dascom.office>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> Thanks Raghavendra,
> 
> We will test it soon.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 22:38 -0600, Raghavendra Bhat wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > http://patches.gluster.com/patch/3151/
> > Can you please apply this patch and see if this works for you?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Raghavendra Bhat
> > 
> > > Tejas,
> > > 
> > > We still have hundreds of GBs to copy, and have not put the new file
> > > system into the test. So far the clients works all fine. I mean the
> > > commands like ls, mkdir, touch, and etc.
> > > 
> > > Thanks again for your time.
> > > 
> > > regards,
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 23:04 -0600, Tejas N. Bhise wrote:
> > > > Chris,
> > > > 
> > > > By the way, after the copy is done, how is the system responding to
> > > > regular access ? In the sense, was the problem with copy also
> > > > carried forward as more trouble seen with subsequent access of
> > > > data over glusterfs ?
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Tejas.
> > > > 
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Chris Jin" <ch...@pikicentral.com>
> > > > To: "Tejas N. Bhise" <te...@gluster.com>
> > > > Cc: "gluster-users" <gluster-users@gluster.org>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:48:42 AM
> > > > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Memory usage high on server sides
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Tejas,
> > > > 
> > > > > Problems you saw - 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 1) High memory usage on client where gluster volume is mounted
> > > > 
> > > > Memory usage for clients is 0% after copying.
> > > > $ps auxf
> > > > USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
> > > COMMAND
> > > > root     19692  1.3  0.0 262148  6980 ?        Ssl  Apr12
> > > > 61:33 /sbin/glusterfs --log-level=NORMAL
> > > > --volfile=/u2/git/modules/shared/glusterfs/clients/r2/c2.vol
> > > /gfs/r2/f2
> > > > 
> > > > > 2) High memory usage on server
> > > > Yes.
> > > > $ps auxf
> > > > USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME
> > > COMMAND
> > > > root     26472  2.2 29.1 718100 600260 ?       Ssl  Apr09 184:09
> > > > glusterfsd -f /etc/glusterfs/servers/r2/f1.vol
> > > > root     26485  1.8 39.8 887744 821384 ?       Ssl  Apr09 157:16
> > > > glusterfsd -f /etc/glusterfs/servers/r2/f2.vol
> > > > 
> > > > > 3) 2 days to copy 300 GB data
> > > > More than 700GB. There are two folders. The first one is copied to
> > > > server 1 and server 2, and the second one is copied to server 2 and
> > > > server 3. The vol files are below.
> > > > 
> > > > > About the config, can you provide the following for both old and
> > > new systems -
> > > > > 
> > > > > 1) OS and kernel level on gluster servers and clients
> > > > Debian Kernel 2.6.18-6-amd64
> > > > 
> > > > $uname -a
> > > > Linux fs2 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 19 04:30:56 UTC 2008 x86_64
> > > > GNU/Linux
> > > > 
> > > > > 2) volume file from servers and clients
> > > > 
> > > > #####Server Vol file (f1.vol)
> > > > # The same settings for f2.vol and f3.vol, just different dirs and
> > > ports
> > > > # f1 f3 for Server 1, f1 f2 for Server 2, f2 f3 for Server 3
> > > > volume posix1
> > > >   type storage/posix
> > > >   option directory /gfs/r2/f1
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume locks1
> > > >     type features/locks
> > > >     subvolumes posix1
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume brick1
> > > >     type performance/io-threads
> > > >     option thread-count 8
> > > >     subvolumes locks1
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume server-tcp
> > > >     type protocol/server
> > > >     option transport-type tcp
> > > >     option auth.addr.brick1.allow 192.168.0.*
> > > >     option transport.socket.listen-port 6991
> > > >     option transport.socket.nodelay on
> > > >     subvolumes brick1
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > #####Client Vol file (c1.vol)
> > > > # The same settings for c2.vol and c3.vol
> > > > # s2 s3 for c2, s3 s1 for c3
> > > > volume s1
> > > >     type protocol/client
> > > >     option transport-type tcp
> > > >     option remote-host 192.168.0.31
> > > >     option transport.socket.nodelay on
> > > >     option transport.remote-port 6991
> > > >     option remote-subvolume brick1
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume s2
> > > >     type protocol/client
> > > >     option transport-type tcp
> > > >     option remote-host 192.168.0.32
> > > >     option transport.socket.nodelay on
> > > >     option transport.remote-port 6991
> > > >     option remote-subvolume brick1
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume mirror
> > > >     type cluster/replicate
> > > >     option data-self-heal off
> > > >     option metadata-self-heal off
> > > >     option entry-self-heal off
> > > >     subvolumes s1 s2
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume writebehind
> > > >     type performance/write-behind
> > > >     option cache-size 100MB
> > > >     option flush-behind off
> > > >     subvolumes mirror
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume iocache
> > > >     type performance/io-cache
> > > >     option cache-size `grep 'MemTotal' /proc/meminfo  | awk '{print
> > > $2 *
> > > > 0.2 / 1024}' | cut -f1 -d.`MB
> > > >     option cache-timeout 1
> > > >     subvolumes writebehind
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume quickread
> > > >     type performance/quick-read
> > > >     option cache-timeout 1
> > > >     option max-file-size 256Kb
> > > >     subvolumes iocache
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > volume statprefetch
> > > >     type performance/stat-prefetch
> > > >     subvolumes quickread
> > > > end-volume
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 3) Filesystem type of backend gluster subvolumes
> > > > ext3
> > > > 
> > > > > 4) How close to full the backend subvolumes are
> > > > New 2T hard disks for each server.
> > > > 
> > > > > 5) The exact copy command .. did you mount the volumes from
> > > > > old and new system on a single machine and did cp or used rsync
> > > > > or some other method ? If something more than just a cp, please
> > > > > send the exact command line you used.
> > > > The old file system uses DRBD and NFS.
> > > > The exact command is
> > > > sudo cp -R -v -p -P /nfsmounts/nfs3/photo .
> > > > 
> > > > > 6) How many files/directories ( tentative ) in that 300GB data (
> > > would help in 
> > > > > trying to reproduce inhouse with a smaller test bed ).
> > > > I cannot tell, but the file sizes are between 1KB to 200KB, average
> > > > around 20KB.
> > > > 
> > > > > 7) Was there other load on the new or old system ?
> > > > The old systems are still used for web servers.
> > > > The new systems are on the same servers but different hard disks. 
> > > > 
> > > > > 8) Any other patterns you noticed.
> > > > There is once that one client tried to connect one server with
> > > external
> > > > IP address.
> > > > Using distribute translator across all three mirrors will make
> > > system
> > > > twice slower than using three mounted folders.
> > > > 
> > > > Is this information enough?
> > > > 
> > > > Please take a look.
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > Chris
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Gluster-users mailing list
> > > Gluster-users@gluster.org
> > > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:38:46 -0700
> From: Liam Slusser <lslus...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] iscsi with gluster
> To: harris narang <harish.narang2...@gmail.com>
> Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org
> Message-ID:
>       <v2p104d4e0e1004220038m300c8b49g376138d22b582...@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> You COULD run gluster on top of an iscsi mounted volume...but why
> would you want too?  If you already have an iscsi SAN why not use gfs2
> or something like that?
> 
> liam
> 
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:56 PM, harris narang
> <harish.narang2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear sir/madam,
> > i want to use gluster with iscsi .please suggest me weather it is possible
> > or not.
> >
> > with regards
> > harish narang
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Gluster-users mailing list
> > Gluster-users@gluster.org
> > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
> >
> >
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:29:51 +0100
> From: "milo...@gmail.com" <milo...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] iscsi with gluster
> To: Liam Slusser <lslus...@gmail.com>
> Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org
> Message-ID:
>       <x2m34dd39fb1004220129hc0c41accx580cbec46ab84...@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Liam Slusser <lslus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You COULD run gluster on top of an iscsi mounted volume...but why
> > would you want too? ?If you already have an iscsi SAN why not use gfs2
> > or something like that?
> >
> 
> You need full cluster infrastructure for that - Gluster is a much
> simpler solution.
> 
> GFS2 is also _very_ slow, although I never run a test to compare it
> with Gluster, but my feeling is that Gluster much faster.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:34:01 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Tejas N. Bhise" <te...@gluster.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] iscsi with gluster
> To: harris narang <harish.narang2...@gmail.com>
> Cc: gluster-users@gluster.org
> Message-ID: <1355050767.2542040.1271925241115.javamail.r...@mb1>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> Hi Harish,
> 
> Gluster Server aggregates local filesystems ( or directories on it ) into a 
> single glusterfs volume. These backend local filesystems can use local disk, 
> FC SAN, iSCSI - does not matter, as long as the host and the backend 
> filesystem work with it.
> 
> Hope that answers your question.
> 
> Regards,
> Tejas.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "harris narang" <harish.narang2...@gmail.com>
> To: gluster-users@gluster.org
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:26:19 AM
> Subject: [Gluster-users] iscsi with gluster
> 
> Dear sir/madam,
> i want to use gluster with iscsi .please suggest me weather it is possible
> or not.
> 
> with regards
> harish narang
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Gluster-users mailing list
> Gluster-users@gluster.org
> http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:07:43 -0700
> From: Liam Slusser <lslus...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] iscsi with gluster
> To: "milo...@gmail.com" <milo...@gmail.com>
> Cc: "gluster-users@gluster.org" <gluster-users@gluster.org>
> Message-ID: <d89a807e-a3a8-4cc1-94bb-db2f9dc71...@gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain;     charset=us-ascii;       format=flowed;  
> delsp=yes
> 
> I have a gfs2 cluster and have found the performance to be  
> outstanding. It's great with small files.   It's hard to say how it  
> compares to my gluster cluster since I designed them to do different  
> tasks.  But since the storage is all shared block level it does have  
> many advantages.
> 
> Liam
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:29 AM, "milo...@gmail.com" <milo...@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Liam Slusser <lslus...@gmail.com>  
> > wrote:
> >> You COULD run gluster on top of an iscsi mounted volume...but why
> >> would you want too?  If you already have an iscsi SAN why not use  
> >> gfs2
> >> or something like that?
> >>
> >
> > You need full cluster infrastructure for that - Gluster is a much
> > simpler solution.
> >
> > GFS2 is also _very_ slow, although I never run a test to compare it
> > with Gluster, but my feeling is that Gluster much faster.
> 
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