[Gluster-users] hanging of mounted filesystem (3.3.1)

Bryan Whitehead driver at megahappy.net
Thu Jan 31 23:52:18 UTC 2013


remove the transport rdma and try again. When using RDMA I've also had
extremely bad CPU eating issues.

I currently run gluster with IPoIB to get the speed of infiniband and the
non-crazy cpu usage of rdma gluster.


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Michael Colonno <mike at hpccloudsolutions.com
> wrote:

>         Hi All ~
>
>         I created an eight-brick gluster 3.3.1 volume (2x replication) on
> eight CentOS 6.3 x64 systems. I was able to form and start the volume
> without issue. I was also able to mount it through /etc/fstab as a native
> glusterfs mount. I have a couple questions issues at this point:
>
>         - On a client machine, "glusterfs" is not recognized as a valid
> type
> unless gluster-server is installed. This seems to contradict the
> documentation - wanted to make sure I'm not doing something wrong. More a
> clarification than issue here.
>
>         - The glusterfs process is taking between 50% and 80% CPU on both
> the brick and client systems (these are fairly powerful, brand new
> servers).
>
>
>         - No doubt linked to the above, the mounted filesystem hangs
> indefinitely when accessed. I tried an "ls -a" on the mounted filesystem,
> for example, which hangs forever. I tested this by mounting a brick system
> to itself and to a client which is not a brick and the same behavior was
> observed. Both were glusterfs mounts.
>
>         There is nothing special about my deployment except for the use of
> transport = tcp,rdma. I am running on Ethernet now but will be migrating to
> Infiniband after this is debugged.
>
>         Thanks for any advice,
>         ~Mike C.
>
>
>
>
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