We are currently testing a new PVFS2 setup at our facility.  The servers are 
running on RHEL 6 using XFS as the underlying filesystem.  We are using four 
PVFS servers.  Performance is beating NFS, which is what we wanted and expected.

While running some simple I/O tests today I discovered that writes are about 
30% faster than reads.  I expected reads to be faster.   Further, when I tried 
the same I/O tests to the local disk of the client, and to an NFS server 
running on the same server hardware, I found that reads were indeed faster than 
writes by 3:1.

Is it expected that reads would be slower on PVFS?   Is there something I need 
to tune?

Thanks in advance!
-Roger Moye

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Roger V. Moye
Systems Analyst III
XSEDE Campus Champion
University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center
Division of Quantitative Sciences
Pickens Academic Tower - FCT4.6109
Houston, Texas
(713) 792-2134
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