<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a number of tweaks/hacks to make it better, but IMHO overall performance with small files is still unacceptable for such folders with thousands of entries.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If your shares are not too large to be placed on single filesystem and you still want to use Gluster - it is possible to run VM on top of Gluster. Inside that VM you can create ZFS/NTFS to be shared.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">8 февр. 2017 г., в 12:10, Gary Lloyd <<a href="mailto:g.lloyd@keele.ac.uk" class="">g.lloyd@keele.ac.uk</a>> написал(а):</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am currently testing gluster 3.9 replicated/distrbuted on centos 7.3 with samba/ctdb.</div><div class="">I have been able to get it all up and running, but writing small files is really slow. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I copy large files from gluster backed samba I get almost wire speed (We only have 1Gb at the moment). I get around half that speed if I copy large files to the gluster backed samba system, which I am guessing is due to it being replicated (This is acceptable).<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Small file write performance seems really poor for us though:</div><div class="">As an example I have an eclipse IDE workspace folder that is 6MB in size that has around 6000 files in it. A lot of these files are <1k in size.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If I copy this up to gluster backed samba it takes almost one hour to get there.</div><div class="">With our basic samba deployment it only takes about 5 minutes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both systems reside on the same disks/SAN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was hoping that we would be able to move away from using a proprietary SAN to house our network shares and use gluster instead.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anyone have any suggestions of anything I could tweak to make it better ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many Thanks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><i class="">Gary Lloyd</i><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">______________________________</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">__________________</span><br class=""><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">I.T. Systems:Keele University</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class=""><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">Finance & IT Directorate</span></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">Keele:Staffs:IC1 Building:ST5 5NB:UK</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class=""><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">______________________________</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" class="">__________________</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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