[Gluster-users] Newbie questions

[Count Zero]

On May 4, 2010, at 3:25 PM, pkoelle wrote:

> From our testing we found gluster with many small files to be rather slow (GigE). Each open() will go over the network and will effectively kill read performance (5-7 MB/sec). We tried to serve webapps with many small files and startup time was not tolerable.


How about performance in 'replicate' mode (AFR), where you set a preferred volume to be the local volume?
Would you still get the same bad performance with that?

It's just unclear to me in which configuration you experiences the sub-optimal performance.