[Gluster-users] Gluster object-storage additional proxy

[Mohammed Junaid]

Hi Daniel,

Please find the comments inline.

Yes, I did that. However the CPU usage gets very high (100% for all cores)
> to have all the Gluster and Swift daemons running on the same machine. We
> want to separate the processes in the same manner it is already possible in
> Swift.


>From what I understand, you have started the Gluster Object Storage on one
of the GlusterFS servers and then increased the Proxy server count. If there
are any other GlusterFS servers then you can start Gluster Object Storage on
those machines and do some load balancing over all these machines by using
Pound, nginx etc. This will help reduce the cpu usage of the current machine
and also utilize the other server resources.

I read the documentation and there's no mention about separating the
> swift/object-storage servers in such way. I already have a working setup, I
> just need to add more proxies.
> I could, of course, setup two sets of independent servers and somehow do a
> messy data sharding between the two servers, but it's simpler and cheaper to
> scale just the proxy servers as needed (this is almost standard procedure in
> Swift) since, from our measurements, they are the bottleneck.
>

There is a difference here how the swift and Gluster Object Storage work.
Currently, all the servers (proxy, auth, object, etc) are all coupled to
each other and hence they cannot be seperated. This can be emulated by
configuring the setup as I mentioned above.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Junaid
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