[Gluster-users] Write-behind nad IO-threads examples giving warnings

Basavanagowda Kanur gowda at zresearch.com
Sat Jan 17 05:22:42 UTC 2009


Filipe,
  Thanks for point out. We will remove the option from io-threads.vol.

--
gowda

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Filipe Maia <filipe at xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:

> Then I think it should be removed from the doc/examples/io-threads.vol
> example, as it can be confusing.
> That link with the options is very usefull, thank you.
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 14:00, Harshavardhana Ranganath
> <harsha at zresearch.com> wrote:
> > Hi Filipe Maia,
> >
> >     io-threads translator doesn't have option "cache-size" . cache-size
> > option should be used for io-cache translator. Read the following link to
> > understand more about currently available options about each translator
> > http://gluster.org/docs/index.php/Translators_options
> >
> > and following log
> > "2009-01-14 12:22:43 W [write-behind.c:1363:init] brick: aggregate-size
> > is not zero, disabling flush-behind"
> >
> > Is harmless. under current code base its loglevel is changed to DEBUG.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Filipe Maia <filipe at xray.bmc.uu.se>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've tried to use the doc/examples/write-behind.vol and io-threads.vol
> >> examples in my unify configuration.
> >> Here's the glusterfs-server.vol:
> >>
> >>
> >> volume disk
> >>  type storage/posix                   # POSIX FS translator
> >>  option directory /export/data        # Export this directory
> >> end-volume
> >>
> >> volume ns
> >>  type storage/posix
> >>  option directory /export/ns
> >> end-volume
> >>
> >> ###  'IO-threads' translator gives a threading behaviour to File I/O
> >> calls.
> >> # All other normal fops are having default behaviour. Loading this on
> >> server side helps
> >> # to reduce the contension of network. (Which is assumed as a GlusterFS
> >> hang).
> >> # One can load it in client side to reduce the latency involved in case
> of
> >> a
> >> # slow network, when loaded below write-behind.
> >> volume iot
> >>  type performance/io-threads
> >>  subvolumes disk
> >>  option thread-count 4 # default value is 1
> >>  option cache-size 16MB # default is 64MB (This is per thread, so
> >> configure it
> >>                        # according to your RAM size and thread-count.
> >> end-volume
> >>
> >>
> >> ### 'Write-behind' translator is a performance booster for write
> >> operation. Best
> >> # used on client side, as its main intension is to reduce the network
> >> latency
> >> # caused for each write operation.
> >>
> >> volume brick
> >>  type performance/write-behind
> >>  subvolumes iot
> >>  option flush-behind on    # default value is 'off'
> >>  option window-size 2MB
> >>  option aggregate-size 1MB # default value is 0
> >> end-volume
> >>
> >> # Volume name is server
> >> volume server
> >>  type protocol/server
> >>  option transport-type tcp
> >>  option auth.addr.brick.allow *
> >>  option auth.addr.ns.allow *
> >>  subvolumes brick ns
> >> end-volume
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm getting the following warnings with glusterfs-1.4.0rc7:
> >>
> >> tintoretto:~# tail /var/log/glusterfsd.log
> >> 2009-01-14 12:22:43 W [write-behind.c:1363:init] brick: aggregate-size
> >> is not zero, disabling flush-behind
> >> 2009-01-14 12:22:43 W [glusterfsd.c:416:_log_if_option_is_invalid]
> >> iot: option 'cache-size' is not recognized
> >> tintoretto:~#
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >> Filipe
> >>
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> >
> >
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> >
> >
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