[Gluster-users] Performance issues with one node

[André Bauer]

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http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Feature%20Planning/GlusterFS%203.7/Small%20File%20Performance/index.html?highlight=small%20file%20performance

Am 24.07.2015 um 20:15 schrieb Mathieu Chateau:
> Hello,
> 
> gluster performance are not good with large number of small files.
> Recent version do a better job with them, but not yet what I would enjoy.
> 
> As you are starting at gluster having an existing architecture, you
> should first setup a lab to learn about it Else you will learn the hard way.
> Don't play with turning off nodes, as you may create more issues than solve.
> 
> just my 2cents
> 
> Cordialement,
> Mathieu CHATEAU
> http://www.lotp.fr
> 
> 2015-07-24 19:34 GMT+02:00 John Kennedy <skebi69 at gmail.com
> <mailto:skebi69 at gmail.com>>:
> 
>     I am new to Gluster and have not found anything useful from my
>     friend Google. I have not dealt with physical hardware in a few
>     years (my last few jobs have been VM's and AWS based)
> 
>     I inherited a 4 node gluster configuration. There are 2 bricks, one
>     is 9TB the other 11TB.
> 
>     The 11TB brick has a HUGE number of small files taking up only 1.3TB
>     of the brick. For some reason, even a simple ls command can take
>     hours to even start listing files. I removed a node by shutting down
>     gluster on that node. The change in performance is dramatic. If I
>     try and do ls on the 11TB brick on the downed node, I am still
>     getting the slow response. I have narrowed the issue down to this
>     one node as a result.
> 
>     When I start gluster on the bad node, glusterfsd hits over 1000%CPU
>     use (The server has dual 8 core CPU's) and the load will jump to
>     25-30 within 5 minutes. As such, I think this is a gluster issue and
>     not a hardware issue. I am trying to not reinstall gluster yet. 
> 
>     Is there something I am missing in my checks or will I need to
>     reinstall gluster on that node?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     John
> 
>     John Kennedy  (_8(|)
>     Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't - Pedro Catacora
> 
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>     more competent than everyone else. Basically - they're too stupid to
>     know that they're stupid.
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