[Gluster-devel] number of connections

[Anand Babu]

Mickey Mazarick writes:
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| Will a client open more than one connection to a storage node?
| Rather will it open a separate connection per volume or does it
| connect to all the volumes on the same connection?
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There is only one connection per brick (storage node) from each
client, even if you export multiple.
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| I ask because I have a total of 6 gigabit ports per server, all of
| which are trunked together. While a single connection can only go at
| 1 GBit it would be nice to up the total throughput by having
| multiple connections.
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You can actually run multiple instances of glusterfsd on the same
brick at different port to achieve this.

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