[Gluster-devel] general performance translator recommendations

[Anand Avati]

>
> 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.

It used to be so before the introduction of non-blocking sockets.
Since then io-threads on the client side would only add a (negligible)
overhead and no advantages as such.

avati