<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the reply<div><br></div><div>I've just done a bit more testing. If I use rsync from a gluster client to copy the same files to the mount point it only takes a couple of minutes.</div><div>For some reason it's very slow on samba though (version 4.4.4).</div><div><br></div><div>I have tried various samba tweaks / settings and have yet to get acceptable write speed on small files.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i>Gary Lloyd</i><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">______________________________</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">__________________</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">I.T. Systems:Keele University</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Finance & IT Directorate</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Keele:Staffs:IC1 Building:ST5 5NB:UK</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><a href="tel:%2B44%201782%20733073" value="+441782733073" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">+44 1782 733063</a><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">______________________________</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">__________________</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 February 2017 at 10:05, Дмитрий Глушенок <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glush@jet.msk.su" target="_blank">glush@jet.msk.su</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>8 февр. 2017 г., в 12:10, Gary Lloyd <<a href="mailto:g.lloyd@keele.ac.uk" target="_blank">g.lloyd@keele.ac.uk</a>> написал(а):</div><br class="m_6782863723204035709Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>I am currently testing gluster 3.9 replicated/distrbuted on centos 7.3 with samba/ctdb.</div><div>I have been able to get it all up and running, but writing small files is really slow. </div><div><br></div><div>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></div><div><br></div><div>Small file write performance seems really poor for us though:</div><div>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><br></div><div>If I copy this up to gluster backed samba it takes almost one hour to get there.</div><div>With our basic samba deployment it only takes about 5 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>Both systems reside on the same disks/SAN.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Does anyone have any suggestions of anything I could tweak to make it better ?</div><div><br></div><div>Many Thanks</div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_6782863723204035709gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><i>Gary Lloyd</i><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">______________________________</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><wbr>__________________</span><br><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">I.T. Systems:Keele University</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Finance & IT Directorate</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Keele:Staffs:IC1 Building:ST5 5NB:UK</span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">______________________________</span><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><wbr>__________________</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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