[Gluster-devel] stability and configurations

[Hans Einar Gautun]

Just some small points.

Thu, 04,.10.2007 kl. 13.56 +0200, skrev Hans Einar Gautun:
> Wed, 03,.10.2007 kl. 14.35 +0200, skrev Jacques Mattheij:
> > Hello there gluster developers and users,

> 
> Servers:
> 2 nodes with ubuntu 6.06 in a client side unify, amd athlon and p3 - 32
> bit, 1GB ram each. Result data from/for computation. Total of 2.8TB
> 3ware ata controller, 300GB disks in raid5. Bonding ethernet, 2 GB NIC's
> each. Kernel stock 2.6.15-23-server.

export / posix-locks / readahead / iothreads


xfs filesystem with -i attr=2,maxpct=0 (don't run out of inodes), 4k
block size, 1k block size on namespace disk.
in test I found xfs being 2 - 3 times faster than reiserfs3 even on
small files, and xfs scales very well in big filetrees :)

> 
> 1 node with Debian etch amd64, 4GB ram. Single directory export (like
> nfs) /home and binary programs for computation. Total of 1.5TB
> 3ware sata controller, 400GB disks in raid5. Bonding ethernet 2 GB
> NIC's. Kernel vanilla 2.6.21.6.
> Local client as well.
> 

export / posix-locks / readahead / iothreads

> Clients:
> 5 nodes for computation, all Debian etch.
> 2 amd64, bonding ethernet 2 GB NIC's each. Kernel vanilla 2.6.21.6
> 3 Xeon 32bit, bonding ethernet 3 GB NIC's each. Kernel stock
> 2.6.18-5-686-bigmem.
> 

unify / iothreads

> fuse-glfs4, glusterfs latest tla, 1.3.3.
> 
> Works like a charm, mixing 32 / 64 bit, and old ubuntu / new debian (gcc
> 4.0.3 / 4.1.2).
> 
Best regards

Einar Gautun
Norwegian mapping authority