[Gluster-devel] Glusterd: A New Hope

[Justin Clift]

On 24/03/2013, at 8:55 AM, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
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> ... the most
> important question: the performance tuning. We all know that glusterfs can be
> unbelievably slow if you tuned the wrong switches. And really, finding the
> right ones is very hard, even for very experienced administrators.
> So instead of becoming "autonomous" (i.e. never be successful, I mean you just
> said you cannot solve this by yourself and want to drop it on external
> know-how) it would be a lot better to make some tuning-tool that analyses a
> situation and gives hints how performance can be optimized - but not tuning it
> by itself of course.

Hmmm, some form of situational tuning sounds like an interesting idea.

Any idea what kind of statistics/counters it would need to be aware of or
somehow be able to measure?

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

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