[Gluster-users] 3.2.2 Performance Issue

Joey McDonald joey at scare.org
Wed Aug 10 17:51:00 UTC 2011


Hi Joe, thanks for your response!


>  An order of magnitude slower with replication. What's going on I wonder?
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>>
>
> You are dealing with contention for Gigabit bandwidth.  Replication will do
> that, and will be pronounced over 1GbE.  Much less of an issue over 10GbE or
> Infiniband.
>

I do understand that replication will increase network usage but a 10x
increase doesn't seem to add up, or does it? I guess a 2x increase would
make more sense to me. I'm only doing a 2x replicated volume.
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