[Gluster-users] Performance

[Mohit Anchlia]

Thanks a lot for taking time and effort. I will try raw performance
first but that will only be going to one disk instead of 4. But I
think it definitely makes sense as the first step.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Joe Landman
<landman at scalableinformatics.com> wrote:
> On 04/20/2011 03:43 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
>>
>> Thanks! Is there any recommended configuration you want me to use when
>> using mdadm?
>>
>> I got this link:
>>
>> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1
>
> First things first, break the RAID0, and then lets measure performance per
> disk, to make sure nothing else bad is going on.
>
>        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/DISK bs=128k count=80k oflag=direct
>        dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/DISK bs=128k count=80k iflag=direct
>
> for /dev/DISK being one of the drives in your existing RAID0.  Once we know
> the raw performance, I'd suggest something like this
>
>        mdadm --create /dev/md0 --metadata=1.2 --chunk=512 \
>                --raid-devices=4 /dev/DISK1 /dev/DISK2     \
>                                 /dev/DISK3 /dev/DISK4
>        mdadm --examine --scan | grep "md\/0" >> /etc/mdadm.conf
>
> then
>
>        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md0 bs=128k count=80k oflag=direct
>        dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/md0 bs=128k count=80k iflag=direct
>
> and lets see how it behaves.  If these are good, then
>
>        mkfs.xfs -l version=2 -d su=512k,sw=4,agcount=32 /dev/md0
>
> (yeah, I know, gluster folk have a preference for ext* ... we generally
> don't recommend ext* for anything other than OS drives ... you might need to
> install xfsprogs and the xfs kernel module ... which kernel are you using
> BTW?)
>
> then
>
>        mount -o logbufs=4,logbsize=64k /dev/md0 /data
>        mkdir stress
>
>
>        dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/big.file bs=128k count=80k oflag=direct
>        dd of=/dev/null if=/data/big.file bs=128k count=80k iflag=direct
>
> and see how it handles things.
>
> When btrfs finally stabilizes enough to be used, it should be a reasonable
> replacement for xfs, but this is likely to be a few years.
>
> --
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