[Gluster-users] Way to improve GlusterFS performance for serving rails applications?

[Jacob Shucart]

It would be better to have the rails application files on the local disk
and use the Gluster storage for images and other content that is uploaded.
The main reason for this is that a single access on a rails application
might result in the webserver having to read 20 small files.  When you add
up the network latency for each of those small file requests, it can
increase the load time by quite a bit.

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Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 12:42 PM
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Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Way to improve GlusterFS performance for
serving rails applications?

Am 29.10.2010 18:23, schrieb Horacio Sanson:

[ ... rails via gluster mount ....]

Hi Horacio,

> The questions:
>
> Am I doing something wrong or missing something or is this expected?
I don't think you are doing something wrong. We tried the same (serving 
rails apps off of gluster mounts) and performance was terrible. Since 
there is no lock manager in gluster, the gluster client needs to check 
all server nodes when the file is accessed locally. This kills 
performance with many small files.

cheers
  Paul

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