[Gluster-users] Slow performance from simple tar -x && rm -r benchmark

[Bryan Whitehead]

[root at lab0-v3 ~]# mount -t nfs -o tcp,nfsvers=3 localhost:/images /mnt
[root at lab0-v3 ~]# cd /mnt
[root at lab0-v3 mnt]# time bash -c 'tar xf /root/linux-3.3.tar ; sync ;
rm -rf linux-3.3'

real	2m26.698s
user	0m0.334s
sys	0m6.943s


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 6:22 AM, David Coulson <david at davidcoulson.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/20/12 2:47 AM, Bryan Whitehead wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to start off and say that I misstated, I must have been
>> doing my *many-file* tests *inside* VM's running on top of glusterfs.
>> I post a loopback test later this week.
>>
> Can you repeat the test using NFS rather than Fuse? I've seen a approx 2x
> performance increase with 'small files' using NFS over Fuse, however I'm not
> sure if it's just anecdotal, or actually a reality.
>
> David