[Gluster-users] Gluster-users Digest, Vol 9, Issue 66

[Evan]

That seems to have done the trick. Thanks to everyone who help!

This looks more like what I would expect...
# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/disktest count=160 bs=65536
160+0 records in
160+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.109778 s, 95.5 MB/s

real    0m0.116s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.128s

# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/gluster/disktest count=160 bs=65536
160+0 records in
160+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.817427 s, 12.8 MB/s

real    0m1.182s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.004s

# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/disktest count=1600 bs=65536
1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 1.10989 s, 94.5 MB/s

real    0m1.122s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m1.116s

# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/gluster/disktest count=1600 bs=65536
1600+0 records in
1600+0 records out
104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 2.31927 s, 45.2 MB/s

real    0m2.671s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.012s



On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Anand Avati <avati at zresearch.com> wrote:

> > # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/gluster/disktest count=10240 bs=1024
>
> Please try with a larger block size like 64KB or higher. Low block
> sizes are very expensive for network or fuse based filesystems.
>
> avati
>
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