[Gluster-users] Poor performance of NFS client for large writes compared to native client

[Vijay Bellur]

On 04/30/2015 06:49 AM, Behrooz Shafiee wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I was comparing GlusterFS native and NFS clients and I noticed, NFS
> client is significantly slower for large writes. I wrote about 200, 1GB
> files using a 1MB block sizes and NFS throughput was almost half of
> native client. Can anyone explain why is that?
>

Depending on where the file gets scheduled, NFS might need an additional 
network hop. That can contribute to additional latency and less 
throughput than the native client.

-Vijay