[Gluster-devel] general performance translator recommendations

[Brent A Nelson]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Vikas Gorur wrote:

> As for io-threads above/below unify, there is not much to be gained by
> using io-threads on the client side, since there are no slow
> operations on the client side (just a straight code path from the
> application to the server). Using it on the server makes sense because
> it lets GlusterFS do other useful work while one thread is waiting for
> a read/write from/to the underlying filesystem finishes.
>

I found io-threads on the client to be a major gain.  When the client is 
very busy with io tasks, io-threads seems to eliminate latency in metadata 
operations (e.g., ls doesn't hang for ages).  It made the client feel much 
more responsive.

Thanks,

Brent