[Gluster-users] Gluster single file I/O

[Keith Freedman]

is direct, a locally attached hard drive?
a network filesystem will NEVER perform as well as a locally attached disk.
I think you're numbers aren't too unreasonable.
You could probably improve your performance by adding some 
performance translators.
Write behind would likely help you a bit.

At 06:59 PM 2/21/2009, Nathan Stratton wrote:

>Direct:
>[root at xen0 unify]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdb2/bar bs=1G count=8
>8+0 records in
>8+0 records out
>8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 51.3145 seconds, 167 MB/s
>
>Gluster:
>[root at xen0 unify]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/unify/foo bs=1G count=8
>8+0 records in
>8+0 records out
>8589934592 bytes (8.6 GB) copied, 87.7885 seconds, 97.8 MB/s
>
>Boxes are connected with 10 gig Infiniband so that should not be an issue.
>
>http://share.robotics.net/glusterfs.vol
>http://share.robotics.net/glusterfsd.vol
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>Nathan Stratton                                CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
>nathan at robotics.net                         nathan at blinkmind.com
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