Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-20 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Montag 21 Januar 2008 00:03:14 schrieb Sascha Ottolski: > I'm still puzzled though, why nginx and lighttpd can't benefit from > the io-cache, and show relatively poor performance. I suspect that > there exist a relation to both phenomenons, but I still can't figure > what that might be :-( sorr

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-20 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Sonntag 20 Januar 2008 14:39:38 schrieb Angel: > find /glustefs/mntpnt/* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -l100 -n100 -P N > md5sum > > how the sistem performs as N increases? > Is this test as slow as apache2 access? Angel, thanks a lot for your hints, I will give it a try. When it comes to apache

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-20 Thread Angel
find /glustefs/mntpnt/* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -l100 -n100 -P N md5sum how the sistem performs as N increases? Is this test as slow as apache2 access? from: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/perf-tuning.html you can read that Memory-mapping In situations where Apache 2.x needs to loo

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-20 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Sonntag 20 Januar 2008 01:38:28 schrieb Anand Avati: > Sascha, > Please run by removing AFR (make AFR's first subvolume a direct > subvolume of unify). AFR can potentially flush io-cache pages while > doing read scheduling across subvolumes (by returning inconsistent > mtimes with the read buff

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-19 Thread Anand Avati
Sascha, Please run by removing AFR (make AFR's first subvolume a direct subvolume of unify). AFR can potentially flush io-cache pages while doing read scheduling across subvolumes (by returning inconsistent mtimes with the read buffer). we are working on fixing this. avati 2008/1/20, Sascha Otto

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-19 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Sonntag 20 Januar 2008 01:14:06 schrieb Anand Avati: > can you please share your spec files with glusterfs.pastebin.com ? my pleasure: http://glusterfs.pastebin.com/m8820300 Thanks for your time, Sascha > > thanks, > avati > > 2008/1/20, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am Samstag 1

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-19 Thread Anand Avati
can you please share your spec files with glusterfs.pastebin.com ? thanks, avati 2008/1/20, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Am Samstag 19 Januar 2008 11:03:43 schrieb Sascha Ottolski: > > Am Freitag 18 Januar 2008 17:49:15 schrieb Anand Avati: > > > Sascha, > > > the reason why 1.3.0pre

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-19 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Samstag 19 Januar 2008 11:03:43 schrieb Sascha Ottolski: > Am Freitag 18 Januar 2008 17:49:15 schrieb Anand Avati: > > Sascha, > > the reason why 1.3.0pre4 might be faster would not be because of > > the missing namespace, but most likely because of missing > > self-heal. can you try with 'opti

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-19 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Sonntag 20 Januar 2008 00:59:12 schrieb Anand Avati: > > now, another astonishing observation: if I enable the io-cache, it > > has a good effect for apache1 (almost doubles the requests/second), > > but almost none for apache2, nginx and lighttpd. > > > > could this help to understand more abou

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-19 Thread Anand Avati
> now, another astonishing observation: if I enable the io-cache, it has a > good effect for apache1 (almost doubles the requests/second), but > almost none for apache2, nginx and lighttpd. > > could this help to understand more about the performance differences? io-cache should have helped all o

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-19 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Freitag 18 Januar 2008 17:49:15 schrieb Anand Avati: > Sascha, > the reason why 1.3.0pre4 might be faster would not be because of the > missing namespace, but most likely because of missing self-heal. can > you try with 'option self-heal off' in the unify section? may ask again, any idea why

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-18 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Am Freitag 18 Januar 2008 17:49:15 schrieben Sie: > Sascha, > the reason why 1.3.0pre4 might be faster would not be because of the > missing namespace, but most likely because of missing self-heal. can > you try with 'option self-heal off' in the unify section? i will try this, but this would cer

Re: [Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-18 Thread Anand Avati
Sascha, the reason why 1.3.0pre4 might be faster would not be because of the missing namespace, but most likely because of missing self-heal. can you try with 'option self-heal off' in the unify section? are the test results same for multiple runs too? avati 2008/1/18, Sascha Ottolski <[EMAIL P

[Gluster-devel] webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

2008-01-18 Thread Sascha Ottolski
Hi Folks, I'm wondering if anyone might have some general advices if I miss something important in my test setup. I'm trying to figure out how to tweak the configs to achieve the best performance, but get result that feel strange to me. I will post some numbers at a later point, but up to now