Hi all,
I have an question and probably some advices about gfs relating to this performans issue. We have use DDN SA6620 system for storage. This has 60 sas disks in it. This device capable of making 4data+2parity or 8data+2parity disks for raid 6 arrays. We have also 2 TB sas disks. We have san with 2 san switch and 4 hp dl 585 G2 servers. In this 8+2 configurations we have 6 raid6 arrays. we have total 120TB raw disk size. But we have divide disks into 6 disk pool and 4 vdisk per pool each vdisk size is 3646 GB. Also we create 4 Lun and each LUN has 6 vdisks. Finally we have 4 LUN which has I/O on all 60 disks of ddn sa6620.we have just tried to manage having all disks make i/o for all servers. Raw Disk size TB Number of raid set pool Number of raid6 disks 1 disk net size GB raid6-set size net GB number of vdisk per disk pool Number of Total vdisks vdisk size GB Number of vdisk for lun lun size GB Number of Lun created Net Usage for 4 lun 120 6 8 1823 14584 4 24 3646 6 21876 4 87504 And Pool, vdisk, LUN config are as follows vd-0 vd-4 vd-8 vd-12 vd-16 vd-20 LVM Lun1 vd-1 vd-5 vd-9 vd-13 vd-17 vd-21 LVM Lun2 vd-2 vd-6 vd-10 vd-14 vd-18 vd-22 LVM Lun3 vd-3 vd-7 vd-11 vd-15 vd-19 vd-23 LVM Lun4 pool1 pool2 pool3 pool4 pool5 pool6 First we have deployed, GFS2 for 4 DL585 servers. Make standalone "dd" test both in serial and parallel from different servers. In serial tests we have measured 70GB/s ~ 96GB/s. after noatime option we have 100GB/s and 140 GB/s io results for writing. In parallel it is getting much worse. Secondly we have formatted LUN with GFS instead of GFS2. We get 500GB/s for one server at a time and 450 GB/s 4 node i/o tests In this I have agree with for Corey CKOVACS for tuning on storage would be important. But comparing gfs with gfs2 formatting option is very interesting. Because gfs seems faster than gfs2. I didn't expect this result. Is it normal? Another important result for gfs or gfs2 journal numbers. If your gfs volume journal number is higher than number of servers for future use. It affects gfs performance very dramaticly.it is better to add journals later while you need it. Regards Aydin SASMAZ -----Özgün İleti----- Kimden: linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:linux-cluster-boun...@redhat.com] Yerine Steven Whitehouse Tarih: Thursday, March 04, 2010 5:46 PM Kime: linux clustering Konu: Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS Tuning - it's just slow, to slow for production Hi, On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 09:13 -0600, Doug Tucker wrote: > Steven, > > We discovered the same issue the day we went into production with ours. > The tuning paramater that made it production ready for us was: > > /sbin/gfs_tool settune /mnt/users statfs_fast 1 > > Why statfs_fast is not set to on by default is beyond my comprehension, > I don't think anyone could run production without it on. Anyway, you > have to set that for every mount point on the cluster, and it has to be > set on all nodes. We just created an init script that runs on startup > after all the cluster services are started. > I suspect that is historical so that we don't surprise people who've not been used to that feature when they upgrade their kernels. In GFS2 it defaults to fast. I'm also trying (gradually) to ensure that there is a way to set all parameters via the mount command line in GFS2 and therefore to avoid having to run special programs after mount to set such parameters. We are not there yet, but we are pretty close now I think, Steve. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
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