Re: [Gluster-users] Adding volumes - How redistribute existing data

2010-07-29 Thread Moore, Michael
Thanks Amar. I did not know about those options. From: ama...@gmail.com [mailto:ama...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Amar Tumballi Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:23 AM To: Moore, Michael Cc: Gluster General Discussion List Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Adding volumes - How redistribute existing data

[Gluster-users] Adding volumes - How redistribute existing data

2010-07-28 Thread Moore, Michael
Hi,   I am trying to add several new backend volumes to an existing GlusterFS setup.  I am running GlusterFS 3.0.4 using the distribute translator. I've tried running the "scale-n-defrag.sh" script to redistribute the data across the additional volumes, but after running for a significant time

Re: [Gluster-users] heavy metadata issues?

2010-04-28 Thread Moore, Michael
Hi Joe, We've been seeing the same thing here with several GlusterFS setups. It is really bad with GigE under load. From looking at our setups, it appears to be a network latency/contention issue. It is definitely not a disk contention issue as there is not a lot of load on the disks at th

Re: [Gluster-users] two node glusterfs with afr and dedicated replication interface?

2010-02-24 Thread Moore, Michael
I would recommend that you try running this with just single links at first before you go to bonding. I've been using bonding (balanced-alb - Mode 6), and I have been finding some strange lag for "stat" operations like "ls", etc. I did a test with only single links and it appears to have bet

Re: [Gluster-users] Interesting experiment

2009-08-20 Thread Moore, Michael
Part of the performance loss is that you cannot get the full 4 Gbit of bandwidth between 2 hosts. Usually you are limited to the throughput of a single link between 2 hosts. And if you are using a round-robin method of bonding, then you run into performance losses due to TCP packets coming in