[Gluster-users] Gluster-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 56 -- GlusterFS performance (Steve Thompson)

[Ben England]

Steve,

try glusterfs 3.3 and look at: 

http://community.gluster.org/a/linux-kernel-tuning-for-glusterfs/

There will be more optimizations in the next Gluster release.  Take advantage of the translators that Gluster supplies, including readahead translator and quick-read translator.

Red Hat does offer support for Red Hat Storage based on Gluster, and it has a pre-packaged tuning profile built into it.   We test with 10-GbE networks and Gluster 3.3 does have reasonably good performance for large-file sequential workloads (and it's scalable).