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<p>Hello Joe,</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>I just did a mount like this (added the bold):</p><p> </p><div>mount -t glusterfs -o <b>attribute-timeout=600,entry-timeout=600,negative-timeout=600,fopen-keep-cache</b>,use-readdirp=no,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterxxx.log 192.168.140.41:/www /var/www</div><div> </div><p>Results:</p><p> </p><div>root@app1:~/smallfile-master# ./smallfile_cli.py --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41 --threads 8 --files 5000 --file-size 64 --record-size 64</div><div>smallfile version 3.0</div><div> hosts in test : ['192.168.140.41']</div><div> top test directory(s) : ['/var/www/test']</div><div> operation : cleanup</div><div> files/thread : 5000</div><div> threads : 8</div><div> record size (KB, 0 = maximum) : 64</div><div> file size (KB) : 64</div><div> file size distribution : fixed</div><div> files per dir : 100</div><div> dirs per dir : 10</div><div> threads share directories? : N</div><div> filename prefix :</div><div> filename suffix :</div><div> hash file number into dir.? : N</div><div> fsync after modify? : N</div><div> pause between files (microsec) : 0</div><div> finish all requests? : Y</div><div> stonewall? : Y</div><div> measure response times? : N</div><div> verify read? : Y</div><div> verbose? : False</div><div> log to stderr? : False</div><div> ext.attr.size : 0</div><div> ext.attr.count : 0</div><div> permute host directories? : N</div><div> remote program directory : /root/smallfile-master</div><div> network thread sync. dir. : /var/www/test/network_shared</div><div>starting all threads by creating starting gate file /var/www/test/network_shared/starting_gate.tmp</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 00,elapsed = 1.232004,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 01,elapsed = 1.148738,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 02,elapsed = 1.130913,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 03,elapsed = 1.183088,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 04,elapsed = 1.220752,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 05,elapsed = 1.228039,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 06,elapsed = 1.216787,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 07,elapsed = 1.229036,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>total threads = 8</div><div>total files = 40000</div><div>100.00% of requested files processed, minimum is 70.00</div><div>1.232004 sec elapsed time</div><div>32467.428972 files/sec</div><div> </div><p> </p><div>root@app1:~/smallfile-master# ./smallfile_cli.py --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41 --threads 8 --files 50000 --file-size 64 --record-size 64</div><div>smallfile version 3.0</div><div> hosts in test : ['192.168.140.41']</div><div> top test directory(s) : ['/var/www/test']</div><div> operation : cleanup</div><div> files/thread : 50000</div><div> threads : 8</div><div> record size (KB, 0 = maximum) : 64</div><div> file size (KB) : 64</div><div> file size distribution : fixed</div><div> files per dir : 100</div><div> dirs per dir : 10</div><div> threads share directories? : N</div><div> filename prefix :</div><div> filename suffix :</div><div> hash file number into dir.? : N</div><div> fsync after modify? : N</div><div> pause between files (microsec) : 0</div><div> finish all requests? : Y</div><div> stonewall? : Y</div><div> measure response times? : N</div><div> verify read? : Y</div><div> verbose? : False</div><div> log to stderr? : False</div><div> ext.attr.size : 0</div><div> ext.attr.count : 0</div><div> permute host directories? : N</div><div> remote program directory : /root/smallfile-master</div><div> network thread sync. dir. : /var/www/test/network_shared</div><div>starting all threads by creating starting gate file /var/www/test/network_shared/starting_gate.tmp</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 00,elapsed = 4.242312,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 01,elapsed = 4.250831,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 02,elapsed = 3.771269,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 03,elapsed = 4.060653,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 04,elapsed = 3.880653,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 05,elapsed = 3.847107,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 06,elapsed = 3.895537,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 07,elapsed = 3.966394,files = 50000,records = 0,status = ok</div><div>total threads = 8</div><div>total files = 400000</div><div>100.00% of requested files processed, minimum is 70.00</div><div>4.250831 sec elapsed time</div><div>94099.245073 files/sec</div><div>root@app1:~/smallfile-master#</div><div> </div><p> </p><p>As you can see it's now crazy fast, I think close to or faster than nfs !! What the hell!??!</p><p> </p><p>I'm so exited I already post. Any suggestions for those parameters? I will do additional testing over here , because this is ridiculous. That woud mean defaults or no good at all...</p><p> </p><p><br />Regards</p><p>Jo</p><p> </p><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /><strong>From:</strong> Joe Julian <joe@julianfamily.org><br /><strong>Sent:</strong> Tue 11-07-2017 17:16<br /><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs<br /><strong>To:</strong> Jo Goossens <jo.goossens@hosted-power.com>; gluster-users@gluster.org; <br /><style type="text/css">body { font-family: monospace; }</style> <div style="color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; ">On 07/11/2017 08:14 AM, Jo Goossens wrote:<br /> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:zarafa.5964eb6b.5272.7a26670758480e61@web.hosted-power.com"> <style type="text/css"> .bodyclass { font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif ! important; font-size: 12px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; margin: 0px; border-style: none; background-color: #ffffff; } p, ul, li { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } </style> <p>Hello Joe,</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>I really appreciate your feedback, but I already tried the opcache stuff (to not valildate at all). It improves of course then, but not completely somehow. Still quite slow.</p> <p> </p> <div>I did not try the mount options yet, but I will now!</div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>With nfs (doesnt matter much built-in version 3 or ganesha version 4) I can even host the site perfectly fast without these extreme opcache settings.</p> <p> </p> <p>I still can't understand why the nfs mount is easily 80 times faster, actually no matter what options I set it seems. It's almost there is something really wrong somehow...</p> </blockquote> <br /> Because the linux nfs client doesn't touch the network for many operations and are, in stead, held in the kernel's FSCache.<br /> <br /> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:zarafa.5964eb6b.5272.7a26670758480e61@web.hosted-power.com"> <p> </p> <p>I tried the ceph mount now and out of the box it's comparable with gluster with nfs mount.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Jo</p> <p> </p> <p>BE: +32 53 599 000</p> <p>NL: +31 85 888 4 555</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.hosted-power.com/" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">https://www.hosted-power.com/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><br /> </p> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /> <strong>From:</strong> Joe Julian <a href="mailto:joe@julianfamily.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=joe@julianfamily.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window"><joe@julianfamily.org></a><br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> Tue 11-07-2017 17:04<br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs<br /> <strong>To:</strong> <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=gluster-users@gluster.org'); return false;" target="_blank" title="This external link will open in a new window">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>; <br /> <style type="text/css">.bodyclass { font-family: monospace; }</style> <div style="color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; "><p>My standard response to someone needing filesystem performance for www traffic is generally, "you're doing it wrong". <a href="https://joejulian.name/blog/optimizing-web-performance-with-glusterfs/" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">https://joejulian.name/blog/optimizing-web-performance-with-glusterfs/</a><br /> <br /> That said, you might also look at these mount options: attribute-timeout, entry-timeout, negative-timeout (set to some large amount of time), and fopen-keep-cache.</p> <br /> <div>On 07/11/2017 07:48 AM, Jo Goossens wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:zarafa.5964e533.4b1c.70763d1a6208ff82@web.hosted-power.com"> <style type="text/css"> .bodyclass { font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif ! important; font-size: 12px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; margin: 0px; border-style: none; background-color: #ffffff; } p, ul, li { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } </style> <p>Hello,</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Here is the volume info as requested by soumya:</p> <p> </p> <div>#gluster volume info www</div> <div> </div> <div>Volume Name: www</div> <div>Type: Replicate</div> <div>Volume ID: 5d64ee36-828a-41fa-adbf-75718b954aff</div> <div>Status: Started</div> <div>Snapshot Count: 0</div> <div>Number of Bricks: 1 x 3 = 3</div> <div>Transport-type: tcp</div> <div>Bricks:</div> <div>Brick1: 192.168.140.41:/gluster/www</div> <div>Brick2: 192.168.140.42:/gluster/www</div> <div>Brick3: 192.168.140.43:/gluster/www</div> <div>Options Reconfigured:</div> <div>cluster.read-hash-mode: 0</div> <div>performance.quick-read: on</div> <div>performance.write-behind-window-size: 4MB</div> <div>server.allow-insecure: on</div> <div>performance.read-ahead: disable</div> <div>performance.readdir-ahead: on</div> <div>performance.io-thread-count: 64</div> <div>performance.io-cache: on</div> <div>performance.client-io-threads: on</div> <div>server.outstanding-rpc-limit: 128</div> <div>server.event-threads: 3</div> <div>client.event-threads: 3</div> <div>performance.cache-size: 32MB</div> <div>transport.address-family: inet</div> <div>nfs.disable: on</div> <div>nfs.addr-namelookup: off</div> <div>nfs.export-volumes: on</div> <div>nfs.rpc-auth-allow: 192.168.140.*</div> <div>features.cache-invalidation: on</div> <div>features.cache-invalidation-timeout: 600</div> <div>performance.stat-prefetch: on</div> <div>performance.cache-samba-metadata: on</div> <div>performance.cache-invalidation: on</div> <div>performance.md-cache-timeout: 600</div> <div>network.inode-lru-limit: 100000</div> <div>performance.parallel-readdir: on</div> <div>performance.cache-refresh-timeout: 60</div> <div>performance.rda-cache-limit: 50MB</div> <div>cluster.nufa: on</div> <div>network.ping-timeout: 5</div> <div>cluster.lookup-optimize: on</div> <div>cluster.quorum-type: auto</div> <div> </div> <div>I started with none of them set and I added/changed while testing. But it was always slow, by tuning some kernel parameters it improved slightly (just a few percent, nothing reasonable)</div> <div> </div> <div>I also tried ceph just to compare, I got this with default settings and no tweaks:</div> <div> </div> <div><div> ./smallfile_cli.py --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41 --threads 8 --files 5000 --file-size 64 --record-size 64</div> <div>smallfile version 3.0</div> <div> hosts in test : ['192.168.140.41']</div> <div> top test directory(s) : ['/var/www/test']</div> <div> operation : cleanup</div> <div> files/thread : 5000</div> <div> threads : 8</div> <div> record size (KB, 0 = maximum) : 64</div> <div> file size (KB) : 64</div> <div> file size distribution : fixed</div> <div> files per dir : 100</div> <div> dirs per dir : 10</div> <div> threads share directories? : N</div> <div> filename prefix :</div> <div> filename suffix :</div> <div> hash file number into dir.? : N</div> <div> fsync after modify? : N</div> <div> pause between files (microsec) : 0</div> <div> finish all requests? : Y</div> <div> stonewall? : Y</div> <div> measure response times? : N</div> <div> verify read? : Y</div> <div> verbose? : False</div> <div> log to stderr? : False</div> <div> ext.attr.size : 0</div> <div> ext.attr.count : 0</div> <div> permute host directories? : N</div> <div> remote program directory : /root/smallfile-master</div> <div> network thread sync. dir. : /var/www/test/network_shared</div> <div>starting all threads by creating starting gate file /var/www/test/network_shared/starting_gate.tmp</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 00,elapsed = 1.339621,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 01,elapsed = 1.436776,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 02,elapsed = 1.498681,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 03,elapsed = 1.483886,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 04,elapsed = 1.454833,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 05,elapsed = 1.469340,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 06,elapsed = 1.439060,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 07,elapsed = 1.375074,files = 5000,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>total threads = 8</div> <div>total files = 40000</div> <div>100.00% of requested files processed, minimum is 70.00</div> <div>1.498681 sec elapsed time</div> <div>26690.134975 files/sec</div> <div> </div> <div> </div></div> <p><br /> Regards</p> <p>Jo</p> <p> </p> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /> <strong>From:</strong> Jo Goossens <a href="mailto:jo.goossens@hosted-power.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=jo.goossens@hosted-power.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><jo.goossens@hosted-power.com></a><br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> Tue 11-07-2017 12:15<br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs<br /> <strong>To:</strong> Soumya Koduri <a href="mailto:skoduri@redhat.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=skoduri@redhat.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><skoduri@redhat.com></a>; <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=gluster-users@gluster.org'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>; <br /> <strong>CC:</strong> Ambarish Soman <a href="mailto:asoman@redhat.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=asoman@redhat.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><asoman@redhat.com></a>; <br /> <style type="text/css">.bodyclass { font-family: monospace; }</style> <style type="text/css"> .bodyclass { font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif ! important; font-size: 12px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; margin: 0px; border-style: none; background-color: #ffffff; } p, ul, li { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } </style> <div><p>Hello,</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Here is some speedtest with a new setup we just made with gluster 3.10, there are no other differences, except glusterfs versus nfs. The nfs is about 80 times faster:</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div>root@app1:~/smallfile-master# mount -t glusterfs -o use-readdirp=no,log-level=WARNING,log-file=/var/log/glusterxxx.log 192.168.140.41:/www /var/www</div> <div>root@app1:~/smallfile-master# ./smallfile_cli.py --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41 --threads 8 --files 500 --file-size 64 --record-size 64</div> <div>smallfile version 3.0</div> <div> hosts in test : ['192.168.140.41']</div> <div> top test directory(s) : ['/var/www/test']</div> <div> operation : cleanup</div> <div> files/thread : 500</div> <div> threads : 8</div> <div> record size (KB, 0 = maximum) : 64</div> <div> file size (KB) : 64</div> <div> file size distribution : fixed</div> <div> files per dir : 100</div> <div> dirs per dir : 10</div> <div> threads share directories? : N</div> <div> filename prefix :</div> <div> filename suffix :</div> <div> hash file number into dir.? : N</div> <div> fsync after modify? : N</div> <div> pause between files (microsec) : 0</div> <div> finish all requests? : Y</div> <div> stonewall? : Y</div> <div> measure response times? : N</div> <div> verify read? : Y</div> <div> verbose? : False</div> <div> log to stderr? : False</div> <div> ext.attr.size : 0</div> <div> ext.attr.count : 0</div> <div> permute host directories? : N</div> <div> remote program directory : /root/smallfile-master</div> <div> network thread sync. dir. : /var/www/test/network_shared</div> <div>starting all threads by creating starting gate file /var/www/test/network_shared/starting_gate.tmp</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 00,elapsed = 68.845450,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 01,elapsed = 67.601088,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 02,elapsed = 58.677994,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 03,elapsed = 65.901922,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 04,elapsed = 66.971720,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 05,elapsed = 71.245102,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 06,elapsed = 67.574845,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 07,elapsed = 54.263242,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>total threads = 8</div> <div>total files = 4000</div> <div>100.00% of requested files processed, minimum is 70.00</div> <div>71.245102 sec elapsed time</div> <div>56.144211 files/sec</div> <div> </div> <div>umount /var/www</div> <div> </div> <div>root@app1:~/smallfile-master# mount -t nfs -o tcp 192.168.140.41:/www /var/www</div> <div>root@app1:~/smallfile-master# ./smallfile_cli.py --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41 --threads 8 --files 500 --file-size 64 --record-size 64</div> <div>smallfile version 3.0</div> <div> hosts in test : ['192.168.140.41']</div> <div> top test directory(s) : ['/var/www/test']</div> <div> operation : cleanup</div> <div> files/thread : 500</div> <div> threads : 8</div> <div> record size (KB, 0 = maximum) : 64</div> <div> file size (KB) : 64</div> <div> file size distribution : fixed</div> <div> files per dir : 100</div> <div> dirs per dir : 10</div> <div> threads share directories? : N</div> <div> filename prefix :</div> <div> filename suffix :</div> <div> hash file number into dir.? : N</div> <div> fsync after modify? : N</div> <div> pause between files (microsec) : 0</div> <div> finish all requests? : Y</div> <div> stonewall? : Y</div> <div> measure response times? : N</div> <div> verify read? : Y</div> <div> verbose? : False</div> <div> log to stderr? : False</div> <div> ext.attr.size : 0</div> <div> ext.attr.count : 0</div> <div> permute host directories? : N</div> <div> remote program directory : /root/smallfile-master</div> <div> network thread sync. dir. : /var/www/test/network_shared</div> <div>starting all threads by creating starting gate file /var/www/test/network_shared/starting_gate.tmp</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 00,elapsed = 0.962424,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 01,elapsed = 0.942673,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 02,elapsed = 0.940622,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 03,elapsed = 0.915218,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 04,elapsed = 0.934349,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 05,elapsed = 0.922466,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 06,elapsed = 0.954381,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>host = 192.168.140.41,thr = 07,elapsed = 0.946127,files = 500,records = 0,status = ok</div> <div>total threads = 8</div> <div>total files = 4000</div> <div>100.00% of requested files processed, minimum is 70.00</div> <div>0.962424 sec elapsed time</div> <div>4156.173189 files/sec</div> <div> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /> <strong>From:</strong> Jo Goossens <a href="mailto:jo.goossens@hosted-power.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=jo.goossens@hosted-power.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><jo.goossens@hosted-power.com></a><br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> Tue 11-07-2017 11:26<br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs<br /> <strong>To:</strong> <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=gluster-users@gluster.org'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>; Soumya Koduri <a href="mailto:skoduri@redhat.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=skoduri@redhat.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><skoduri@redhat.com></a>; <br /> <strong>CC:</strong> Ambarish Soman <a href="mailto:asoman@redhat.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=asoman@redhat.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><asoman@redhat.com></a>; <br /> <style type="text/css">.bodyclass { font-family: monospace; }</style> <style type="text/css"> .bodyclass { font-family: Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif ! important; font-size: 12px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px; margin: 0px; border-style: none; background-color: #ffffff; } p, ul, li { margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } </style> <div><p>Hi all,</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>One more thing, we have 3 apps servers with the gluster on it, replicated on 3 different gluster nodes. (So the gluster nodes are app servers at the same time). We could actually almost work locally if we wouldn't need to have the same files on the 3 nodes and redundancy :)</p> <p> </p> <p>Initial cluster was created like this:</p> <p> </p> <div>gluster volume create www replica 3 transport tcp 192.168.140.41:/gluster/www 192.168.140.42:/gluster/www 192.168.140.43:/gluster/www force</div> <div>gluster volume set www network.ping-timeout 5</div> <div>gluster volume set www performance.cache-size 1024MB</div> <div>gluster volume set www nfs.disable on # No need for NFS currently</div> <div>gluster volume start www</div> <div> </div> <div>To my understanding it still wouldn't explain why nfs has such great performance compared to native ...</div> <div> </div> <p> </p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Jo</p> <p> </p> <p><br /> </p> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px;margin-left:5px;">-----Original message-----<br /> <strong>From:</strong> Soumya Koduri <a href="mailto:skoduri@redhat.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=skoduri@redhat.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><skoduri@redhat.com></a><br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> Tue 11-07-2017 11:16<br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [Gluster-users] Gluster native mount is really slow compared to nfs<br /> <strong>To:</strong> Jo Goossens <a href="mailto:jo.goossens@hosted-power.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=jo.goossens@hosted-power.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><jo.goossens@hosted-power.com></a>; <a href="mailto:gluster-users@gluster.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=gluster-users@gluster.org'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">gluster-users@gluster.org</a>; <br /> <strong>CC:</strong> Ambarish Soman <a href="mailto:asoman@redhat.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=asoman@redhat.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><asoman@redhat.com></a>; Karan Sandha <a href="mailto:ksandha@redhat.com" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=ksandha@redhat.com'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank"><ksandha@redhat.com></a>; <br /> + Ambarish<br /> <br /> On 07/11/2017 02:31 PM, Jo Goossens wrote:<br /> > Hello,<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > We tried tons of settings to get a php app running on a native gluster<br /> > mount:<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > e.g.: 192.168.140.41:/www /var/www glusterfs<br /> > defaults,_netdev,backup-volfile-servers=192.168.140.42:192.168.140.43,direct-io-mode=disable<br /> > 0 0<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > I tried some mount variants in order to speed up things without luck.<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > After that I tried nfs (native gluster nfs 3 and ganesha nfs 4), it was<br /> > a crazy performance difference.<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > e.g.: 192.168.140.41:/www /var/www nfs4 defaults,_netdev 0 0<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > I tried a test like this to confirm the slowness:<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > ./smallfile_cli.py --top /var/www/test --host-set 192.168.140.41<br /> > --threads 8 --files 5000 --file-size 64 --record-size 64<br /> ><br /> > This test finished in around 1.5 seconds with NFS and in more than 250<br /> > seconds without nfs (can't remember exact numbers, but I reproduced it<br /> > several times for both).<br /> ><br /> > With the native gluster mount the php app had loading times of over 10<br /> > seconds, with the nfs mount the php app loaded around 1 second maximum<br /> > and even less. (reproduced several times)<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > I tried all kind of performance settings and variants of this but not<br /> > helped , the difference stayed huge, here are some of the settings<br /> > played with in random order:<br /> ><br /> <br /> Request Ambarish & Karan (cc'ed who have been working on evaluating <br /> performance of various access protocols gluster supports) to look at the <br /> below settings and provide inputs.<br /> <br /> Thanks,<br /> Soumya<br /> <br /> ><br /> ><br /> > gluster volume set www features.cache-invalidation on<br /> > gluster volume set www features.cache-invalidation-timeout 600<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.stat-prefetch on<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.cache-samba-metadata on<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.cache-invalidation on<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.md-cache-timeout 600<br /> > gluster volume set www network.inode-lru-limit 250000<br /> ><br /> > gluster volume set www performance.cache-refresh-timeout 60<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.read-ahead disable<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.readdir-ahead on<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.parallel-readdir on<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.write-behind-window-size 4MB<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.io-thread-count 64<br /> ><br /> > gluster volume set www performance.client-io-threads on<br /> ><br /> > gluster volume set www performance.cache-size 1GB<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.quick-read on<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.flush-behind on<br /> > gluster volume set www performance.write-behind on<br /> > gluster volume set www nfs.disable on<br /> ><br /> > gluster volume set www client.event-threads 3<br /> > gluster volume set www server.event-threads 3<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > The NFS ha adds a lot of complexity which we wouldn't need at all in our<br /> > setup, could you please explain what is going on here? Is NFS the only<br /> > solution to get acceptable performance? Did I miss one crucial settting<br /> > perhaps?<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > We're really desperate, thanks a lot for your help!<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > PS: We tried with gluster 3.11 and 3.8 on Debian, both had terrible<br /> > performance when not used with nfs.<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > Kind regards<br /> ><br /> > Jo Goossens<br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> ><br /> > _______________________________________________<br /> > Gluster-users mailing list<br /> > <a href="mailto:Gluster-users@gluster.org" onclick="parent.webclient.openWindow(this, 'createmail', 'index.php?load=dialog&task=createmail_standard&to=Gluster-users@gluster.org'); return false;" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">Gluster-users@gluster.org</a><br /> > <a href="http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users" title="This external link will open in a new window" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">http://lists.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users</a><br /> ><br /> </blockquote></div> <pre>
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