Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-16 Thread Jeff Darcy
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:30:11 +0100 Marcus Bointon mar...@synchromedia.co.uk wrote: On 16 Mar 2012, at 00:33, David Coulson wrote: Is there a FAQ/document somewhere with optimal mkfs and mount options for ext4 and xfs? Is xfs still the 'desired' filesystem for gluster bricks? Something

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-16 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
On 3/16/12 10:30 AM, Marcus Bointon wrote: On 16 Mar 2012, at 00:33, David Coulson wrote: Is there a FAQ/document somewhere with optimal mkfs and mount options for ext4 and xfs? Is xfs still the 'desired' filesystem for gluster bricks? Something that I think would really help gluster is to

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-15 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:09:28PM -0500, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: get 50-60 MB/s transfer speeds tops when sending large files ( 2GB) to gluster. When copying a directory of small files, we get = 1 MB/s performance! My question is ... is this right? Is this what I should expect from

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-15 Thread Paul Simpson
same - XFS works v well for us too. maybe this is just a stripe issue? On 15 March 2012 12:49, Fabricio fcann...@gmail.com wrote: Em 15-03-2012 09:24, Sabuj Pattanayek escreveu: Striped volumes are unfortunately broken on top of XFS at the moment:

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-15 Thread Sabuj Pattanayek
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Paul Simpson p...@realisestudio.com wrote: same - XFS works v well for us too.  maybe this is just a stripe issue? No, it doesn't report the size of sparse files correctly: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-06/msg00225.html

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-15 Thread Jeff Darcy
On 03/15/2012 12:09 AM, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: After tweaking settings the best we could, we were able to copy files from Mac and Win7 desktops across the network but only able to get 50-60 MB/s transfer speeds tops when sending large files ( 2GB) to gluster. When copying a directory of

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-15 Thread Jeff Darcy
On 03/15/2012 09:20 AM, Brian Candler wrote: I pointed out the problem on the list, and was told that no one strategy can fit every usage case. This one is particularly tuned to Samba (which writes 128K past the end of the file then back-fills with data). It was suggested that glusterfsd

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-15 Thread Sean Fulton
One question I have: In a case where four client nodes need equal read/write access to the data, is it better to have four Gluster nodes in a replicated configuration with each mounting the gluster volume locally, or having TWO Gluster server nodes with the four clients mounting the volume

Re: [Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-15 Thread David Coulson
Is there a FAQ/document somewhere with optimal mkfs and mount options for ext4 and xfs? Is xfs still the 'desired' filesystem for gluster bricks? On 3/15/12 3:22 AM, Brian Candler wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:09:28PM -0500, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: get 50-60 MB/s transfer speeds tops when

[Gluster-users] Usage Case: just not getting the performance I was hoping for

2012-03-14 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
All, For our project, we bought 8 new Supermicro servers. Each server is a quad-core Intel cpu with 2U chassis supporting 8 x 7200 RPM Sata drives. To start out, we only populated 2 x 2TB enterprise drives in each server and added all 8 peers with their total of 16 drives as bricks to our