Re: [Gluster-users] another NFS vs glusterfs performance question

2009-05-28 Thread Matt M
Paolo Pisati wrote: could you try a different speed/stress test? for example, download the latest firefox archive (or any other big-enough compilable application), decompress it on the server, export the filesystem via nfs and via gfs, and try to compile it from the client: what's the differ

Re: [Gluster-users] another NFS vs glusterfs performance question

2009-05-22 Thread Paolo Pisati
Matt M wrote: This is a follow-up to my earlier email. I still haven't been able to figure out what the problem is, but if I turn off AFR between the servers, write performance improves to be about the same as NFS. I can send my config files again, but basically I comment out the afr sections a

Re: [Gluster-users] another NFS vs glusterfs performance question

2009-05-21 Thread Matt M
This is a follow-up to my earlier email. I still haven't been able to figure out what the problem is, but if I turn off AFR between the servers, write performance improves to be about the same as NFS. I can send my config files again, but basically I comment out the afr sections and point my

[Gluster-users] another NFS vs glusterfs performance question

2009-04-28 Thread Matt M
Hi All, I'm new to gluster and have a basic test environment of three old PCs: two servers and one client. I've currently got it configured to do AFR on the two servers and HA on the client, according to this example: http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/High-availability_storage_using_serve