[Gluster-users] Slow read performance

Bryan Whitehead driver at megahappy.net
Thu Feb 28 00:41:08 UTC 2013


Are your figures 700-800M*Byte*/sec? Because that is probably as fast as
your 10G nic cards are able to do. You can test that by trying to push a
large amount of data over nc or ftp.

Might want to try Infiniband. 40G cards are pretty routine.


On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Thomas Wakefield <twake at iges.org> wrote:

> I also get the same performance running iozone for large file
> sizes, iozone -u 1 -r 512k -s 2G -I -F.
>
> Large file IO is what I need the system to do.  I am just shocked at the
> huge difference between local IO and gluster client IO.  I know there
> should be some difference, but 10x is unacceptable.
>
> -Tom
>
>
>
> On Feb 27, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Bryan Whitehead <driver at megahappy.net> wrote:
>
> Every time you open/close a file or a directory you will have to wait for
> locks which take time. This is totally expected.
>
> Why don't you share what you want to do? iozone benchmarks look like crap
> but serving qcow2 files to qemu works fantastic for me. What are you doing?
> Make a benchmark that does that. If you are going to have many files with a
> wide variety of sizes glusterfs/fuse might not be what you are looking for.
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Thomas Wakefield <twake at cola.iges.org>wrote:
>
>> I have tested everything, small and large files.  I have used file sizes
>> ranging from 128k up to multiple GB files.  All the reads are bad.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is a fairly exhaustive iozone auto test:
>>
>>                                                             random
>>  random    bkwd   record   stride
>>               KB  reclen   write rewrite    read    reread    read
>> write    read  rewrite     read   fwrite frewrite   fread  freread
>>               64       4   40222   63492    26868    30060    1620
>> 71037    1572    70570    31294    77096    72475   14736    13928
>>               64       8   99207  116366    13591    13513    3214
>> 97690    3155   109978    28920   152018   158480   18936    17625
>>               64      16  230257  253766    25156    28713   10867
>>  223732    8873   244297    54796   303383   312204   15062    13545
>>               64      32  255943  234481  5735102  7100397   11897
>>  318502   13681   347801    24214   695778   528618   25838    28094
>>               64      64  214096  681644  6421025  7100397   27453
>>  292156   28117   621657    27338   376062   512471   28569    32534
>>              128       4   74329   75468    26428    41089    1131
>> 72857    1118    66976     1597    73778    78343   13351    13026
>>              128       8  100862  135170    24966    16734    2617
>>  118966    2560   120406    39156   125121   146613   16177    16180
>>              128      16  115114  253983    28212    17854    5307
>>  246180    5431   229843    47335   255920   271173   27256    24445
>>              128      32  256042  391360    39848    64258   11329
>>  290230    9905   429563    38176   490380   463696   20917    19219
>>              128      64  248573  592699  4557257  6812590   19583
>>  452366   29263   603357    42967   814915   692017   76327    37604
>>              128     128  921183  526444  5603747  5379161   45614
>>  390222   65441   826202    41384   662962  1040839   78526    39023
>>              256       4   76212   77337    40295    32125    1289
>> 71866    1261    64645     1436    57309    53048   23073    29550
>>              256       8  126922  141976    26237    25130    2566
>>  128058    2565   138981     2985   125060   133603   22840    24955
>>              256      16  242883  263636    41850    24371    4902
>>  250009    5290   248792    89353   243821   247303   26965    26199
>>              256      32  409074  439732    40101    39335   11953
>>  436870   11209   430218    83743   409542   479390   30821    27750
>>              256      64  259935  571502    64840    71847   22537
>>  617161   23383   392047    91852   672010   802614   41673    53111
>>              256     128  847597  812329   185517    83198   49383
>>  708831   44668   794889    74267  1180188  1662639   54303    41018
>>              256     256  481324  709299  5217259  5320671   44668
>>  719277   40954   808050    41302   790209   771473   62224    35754
>>              512       4   77667   75226    35102    29696    1337
>> 66262    1451    67680     1413    69265    69142   42084    27897
>>              512       8  134311  144341    30144    24646    2102
>>  134143    2209   134699     2296   108110   128616   25104    29123
>>              512      16  200085  248787    30235    25697    4196
>>  247240    4179   256116     4768   250003   226436   32351    28455
>>              512      32  330341  439805    26440    39284    8744
>>  457611    8006   424168   125953   425935   448813   27660    26951
>>              512      64  483906  733729    48747    41121   16032
>>  555938   17424   587256   187343   366977   735740   41700    41548
>>              512     128  836636  907717    69359    94921   42443
>>  761031   36828   964378   123165   651383   695697   58368    44459
>>              512     256  520879  860437   145534   135523   40267
>>  847532   31585   663252    69696  1270846  1492545   48822    48092
>>              512     512  782951  973118  3099691  2942541   42328
>>  871966   46218   911184    49791   953248  1036527   52723    48347
>>             1024       4   76218   69362    36431    28711    1137
>> 66171    1174    68938     1125    70566    70845   34942    28914
>>             1024       8  126045  140524    37836    15664    2698
>>  126000    2557   125566     2567   110858   127255   26764    27945
>>             1024      16  243398  261429    40238    23263    3987
>>  246400    3882   260746     4093   236652   236874   31429    25076
>>             1024      32  383109  422076    41731    41605    8277
>>  473441    7775   415261     8588   394765   407306   40089    28537
>>             1024      64  590145  619156    39623    53267   15051
>>  722717   14624   753000   257294   597784   620946   38619    44073
>>             1024     128 1077836 1124099    56192    64916   36851
>> 1102176   37198  1082454   281548   829175   792604   47975    51913
>>             1024     256  941918 1074331    72783    81450   26778
>> 1099636   32395  1060013   183218  1024121   995171   44371    45448
>>             1024     512  697483 1130312   100324   114682   48215
>> 1041758   41480  1058967    90156   994020  1563622   56328    46370
>>             1024    1024  931702 1087111  4609294  4199201   44191
>>  949834   45594   970656    56674   933525  1075676   44876    46115
>>             2048       4   71438   67066    58319    38913    1147
>> 44147    1043    42916      967    66416    67205   45953    96750
>>             2048       8  141926  134567    61101    55445    2596
>> 77528    2564    80402     4258   124211   120747   53888   100337
>>             2048      16  254344  255585    71550    74500    5410
>>  139365    5201   141484     5171   205521   213113   67048    57304
>>             2048      32  397833  411261    56676    80027   10440
>>  260034   10126   230238    10814   391665   383379   79333    60877
>>             2048      64  595167  687205    64262    87327   20772
>>  456430   19960   477064    23190   540220   563096   86812    92565
>>             2048     128  833585  933403   121926   118621   37700
>>  690020   37575   733254   567449   712337   734006   92011   104934
>>             2048     256  799003  949499   143688   125659   40871
>>  892757   37977   880494   458281   836263   901375  131332   110237
>>             2048     512  979936 1040724   120896   138013   54381
>>  859783   48721   780491   279203  1068824  1087085   97886    98078
>>             2048    1024  901754  987938    53352    53043   72727
>> 1054522   68269   992275   181253  1309480  1524983  121600    95585
>>             2048    2048  831890 1021540  4257067  3302797   75672
>>  984203   80181   826209    94278   966920  1027159  111832   105921
>>             4096       4   66195   67316    62171    74785    1328
>> 28963    1329    26397     1223    71470    69317   55903    84915
>>             4096       8  122221  120057    90537    60958    2598
>> 47312    2468    59783     2640   128674   127872   41285    40422
>>             4096      16  238321  239251    29336    32121    4153
>> 89262    3986    96930     4608   229970   237108   55039    56983
>>             4096      32  417110  421356    30974    50000    8382
>>  156676    7886   153841     7900   359585   367288   26611    25952
>>             4096      64  648008  668066    32193    29389   14830
>>  273265   14822   282211    19653   581898   620798   51281    50218
>>             4096     128  779422  848564    55594    60253   37108
>>  451296   35908   491361    37567   738163   728059   67681    66440
>>             4096     256  865623  886986    71368    63947   44255
>>  645961   42689   719491   736707   819696   837641   57059    60347
>>             4096     512  852099  889650    68870    73891   31185
>>  845224   30259   830153   392334   910442   961983   60083    55558
>>             4096    1024  710357  867810    29377    29522   49954
>>  846640   43665   926298   213677   986226  1115445   55130    59205
>>             4096    2048  826479  908420    43191    42075   59684
>>  904022   58601   855664   115105  1418322  1524415   60548    66066
>>             4096    4096  793351  855111  3232454  3673419   66018
>>  861413   48833   847852    45914   852268   842075   42980    48374
>>             8192       4   67340   69421    42198    31740     994
>> 23251    1166    16813      837    73827    73126   25169    29610
>>             8192       8  137150  125622    29131    36439    2051
>> 44342    1988    48930     2315   134183   135367   31080    33573
>>             8192      16  237366  220826    24810    26584    3576
>> 88004    3769    78717     4289   233751   235355   23302    28742
>>             8192      32  457447  454404    31594    27750    8141
>>  142022    7846   143984     9322   353147   396188   34203    33265
>>             8192      64  670645  655259    28630    23255   16669
>>  237476   16965   244968    15607   590365   575320   49998    43305
>>             8192     128  658676  760982    44197    47802   28693
>>  379523   26614   378328    27184   720997   702038   51707    49733
>>             8192     256  643370  698683    56233    63165   28846
>>  543952   27745   576739    44014   701007   725534   59611    58985
>>             8192     512  696884  776793    67258    52705   18711
>>  698854   21004   694124   621695   784812   773331   43101    47659
>>             8192    1024  729664  810451   15470    15875   31318  801490
>>   38123   812944   301222   804323   832765   54308    53376
>>             8192    2048  749217   68757    21914    22667   48971
>>  783309   48132   782738   172848   907408   929324   51156    50565
>>             8192    4096  707677  763960    32063    31928   47809
>>  751692   49560   786339    93445  1046761  1297876   48037    51680
>>             8192    8192  623817  746288  2815955  3137358   48722
>>  741633   35428   753787    49626   803683   823800   48977    52895
>>            16384       4   72372   73651    34471    30788     960
>> 23610     903    22316      891    71445    71138   56451    55129
>>            16384       8  137920  141704    50830    33857    1935
>> 41934    2275    35588     3608   130757   137801   51621    48525
>>            16384      16  245369  242460    41808    29770    3605
>> 75682    4355    75315     4767   241100   239693   53263    30785
>>            16384      32  448877  433956    31846    35010    7973
>>  118181    8819   112703     8177   381734   391651   57749    63417
>>            16384      64  710831  700712    66792    68864   20176
>>  209806   19034   207852    21255   589503   601379  104567   105162
>>            16384     128  836901  860867   104226   100373   40899
>>  358865   40946   360562    39415   675968   691538   96086   105695
>>            16384     256  798081  828146   107103   120433   39084
>>  595325   39050   593110    56925   763466   797859  109645   113414
>>            16384     512  810851  843931   113564   106202   35111
>>  714831   46244   745947    53636   802902   760172  110492   100879
>>            16384    1024  726399  820219    22106    22987   53087
>>  749053   54781   777705  1075341   772686   809723  100349    96619
>>            16384    2048  807772  856458    23920    23617   66320
>>  829576   72105   740848   656379   864539   835446   93499   101714
>>            16384    4096  797470  840596    27270    28132   88784
>>  834938   83428   836809   342898   953274   969699   96499   100657
>>            16384    8192  760063  812942    41022    40014  102020
>>  812135  104063   820346   229870  1252409  1398306  100959   103793
>>            16384   16384  743107  825054  3074035  3551062   97740
>>  826175  103597   803926    94681   820474   829106   97168    92018
>>            32768      64  713528  714585    71310    74296   21135
>>  194177   21551   202998    21110   571030   595232   98598   103373
>>            32768     128  766698  820615   103028   102269   39013
>>  328409   40325   346403    41084   684604   702513  103887   100689
>>            32768     256  766591  819138   107557   113878   42088
>>  574878   41778   557989    55045   749922   754434  100964   104866
>>            32768     512  774365  846915   104255   106094   35280
>>  728957   25829   734316    26990   750614   800955   55013    63750
>>            32768    1024  759113  806241    22033    22622   37322
>>  761870   45003   766950    54519   755666   741339   70018    66255
>>            32768    2048  797566  860344    22893    23859   49973
>>  778872   53509   779539   796674   817078   797585   56750    57047
>>            32768    4096  796693  798985    24267    25222   54410
>>  781810   53053   802845   421421   832858   855811   56748    60507
>>            32768    8192  741543  795144    29254    29150   58678
>>  830011   55545   833914   221323   914182   952916   56120    60014
>>            32768   16384  754641  819797    44183    45718   67293
>>  785047   65078   807273   132136  1240414  1267713   56585    56167
>>            65536      64  663333  656588    32211    31925   17324
>>  202043   15477   215981    15496   592126   597188   86431    93969
>>            65536     128  716218  791603    92035    95614   40330
>>  330127   39295   346542    39469   697385   714453  105094    98327
>>            65536     256  769283  798701   110285   110085   38404
>>  535730   39939   585023    52402   741206   749899   98671   100106
>>            65536     512  728151  814516   112550   108873   32284
>>  690164   38911   708244    50047   778669   765303   98333    92728
>>            65536    1024  773504  827108    21542    20741   45901
>>  775473   57282   807232    69359   770793   766736  101465   100905
>>            65536    2048  767661  853446    21077    21260   59825
>>  762711   71985   802488    87290   772402   775685   96832   103189
>>            65536    4096  767669  828165    20681    21480   79798
>>  829757   91755   838367  1379411   791248   783023  106433   112769
>>            65536    8192  739291  784946    23100    22454   85945
>>  785134   87081   828489   642088   816781   798275   93307    95318
>>            65536   16384  736401  791669    26345    26384   93082
>>  799356   91419   751766   385721   911919   884688  109668    96374
>>           131072      64  658361  661211    79790    81016   19460
>>  182084   19325   195428    19553   551809   554426   96581    81979
>>           131072     128  759806  838994    51063    56976   33624
>>  326699   36329   360593    35679   710602   716538   81725    51819
>>           131072     256  787375  843763    54664    65031   33847
>>  557817   35093   581552    45163   750234   758452   82704    83472
>>           131072     512  777460  818049    87831    87110   27994
>>  705621   31860   723071    38483   779489   793068   88281    86068
>>           131072    1024  737158  782780    19005    18897   36614
>>  735240   38900   812074    52149   746598   762694   74376    82534
>>           131072    2048  777386  817330    24169    24693   55171
>>  769662   56082   788848    55937   757716   763147   73508    82351
>>           131072    4096  751757  792201    25283    25173   48455
>>  813945   56557   837418    59578   749106   757939   67846    70964
>>           131072    8192  743004  796673    20369    20327   88990
>>  780925   95956   777211   951528   762755   739851   70850    69943
>>           131072   16384  766023  823611    22333    22142  108337
>>  796852  110848   777704   718954   809861   802822  115896    82903
>>           262144      64  655769  695392    45973    45668   19083
>>  209417   18768   207272    19133   601329   599267  107705    87261
>>           262144     128  750052  798999    72711    74713   37329
>>  339480   36854   365587    37187   710898   714372  108400    78806
>>           262144     256  788355  815575    80897    75141   37080
>>  549762   37521   574393    51731   780429   751131   97395    73842
>>           262144     512  714994  736649    80224    80195   32986
>>  708196   36048   628508    44043   767699   781863  123267    83558
>>           262144    1024  793541  800826    20200    20428   45599
>>  752027   48232   798229    57011   715643   763691   76741    73211
>>           262144    2048  699395  782935    20227    20519   65785
>>  779219   80486   803403    93381   650054   712171  115611   108457
>>           262144    4096  629531  766261    20544    21563   83107
>>  819917   93008   844103    90625   741879   754931   94114    94475
>>           262144    8192  731695  804112    21158    21589   82987
>>  787869   84858   799483    95127   731822   737397   95950    95160
>>           262144   16384  703376  802552    21940    22371   87748
>>  777024   90349   779626  1018679   765278   619969   96051    92734
>>           524288      64  649937  710342    73778    70893   19734
>>  207179   19367   199709    19493   585910   581340   91902    91443
>>           524288     128  739270  805153    91507    90395   38547
>>  319049   37988   358516    38123   712602   711814   92463    90851
>>           524288     256  751279  802496    89481    91022   38869
>>  544097   38244   569142    56130   756367   752466   92677    92875
>>           524288     512  758393  819788    58085    73437   29030
>>  700120   28767   739236    33925   770177   795879   58963    72689
>>           524288    1024  778385  818368    18822    18639   38774
>>  798827   50898   799492    55679   801849   800917   92778    82686
>>           524288    2048  780594  834612    19936    19994   63147
>>  769555   63007   802512    66322   772900   771314   86628    93485
>>           524288    4096  769806  812570    20165    20137   79896
>>  783615   71217    80835    68550    80166    73733  122559   116844
>>           524288    8192  797504  887823   123824   124513   94520
>>  844880   86441   710319    65077   636713   819868   87765    80121
>>           524288   16384  788468  858216    92580   117354  109583
>>  850179   63966   856965   121151   789252   805040  123810   119088
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Bryan Whitehead <driver at megahappy.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> How are you doing the read/write tests on the fuse/glusterfs mountpoint?
>> Many small files will be slow because all the time is spent coordinating
>> locks.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Thomas Wakefield <twake at cola.iges.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Help please-
>>>
>>>
>>> I am running 3.3.1 on Centos using a 10GB network.  I get reasonable
>>> write speeds, although I think they could be faster.  But my read speeds
>>> are REALLY slow.
>>>
>>> Executive summary:
>>>
>>> On gluster client-
>>> Writes average about 700-800MB/s
>>> Reads average about 70-80MB/s
>>>
>>> On server-
>>> Writes average about 1-1.5GB/s
>>> Reads average about 2-3GB/s
>>>
>>> Any thoughts?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are some additional details:
>>>
>>> Nothing interesting in any of the log files, everything is very quite.
>>> All servers had no other load, and all clients are performing the same
>>> way.
>>>
>>>
>>> Volume Name: shared
>>> Type: Distribute
>>> Volume ID: de11cc19-0085-41c3-881e-995cca244620
>>> Status: Started
>>> Number of Bricks: 26
>>> Transport-type: tcp
>>> Bricks:
>>> Brick1: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2a
>>> Brick2: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2b
>>> Brick3: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2d
>>> Brick4: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2e
>>> Brick5: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2f
>>> Brick6: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2g
>>> Brick7: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2h
>>> Brick8: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2i
>>> Brick9: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2j
>>> Brick10: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2k
>>> Brick11: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2l
>>> Brick12: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2m
>>> Brick13: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2n
>>> Brick14: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2o
>>>  Brick15: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2p
>>> Brick16: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2q
>>> Brick17: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2r
>>> Brick18: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2s
>>> Brick19: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2t
>>> Brick20: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2u
>>> Brick21: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2v
>>> Brick22: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2w
>>> Brick23: fs-disk2:/storage/disk2x
>>> Brick24: fs-disk3:/storage/disk3a
>>> Brick25: fs-disk3:/storage/disk3b
>>>  Brick26: fs-disk3:/storage/disk3c
>>> Options Reconfigured:
>>> performance.write-behind: on
>>> performance.read-ahead: on
>>> performance.io-cache: on
>>> performance.stat-prefetch: on
>>> performance.quick-read: on
>>> cluster.min-free-disk: 500GB
>>> nfs.disable: off
>>>
>>>
>>> sysctl.conf settings for 10GBe
>>> # increase TCP max buffer size settable using setsockopt()
>>> net.core.rmem_max = 67108864
>>> net.core.wmem_max = 67108864
>>> # increase Linux autotuning TCP buffer limit
>>> net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 67108864
>>> net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 67108864
>>> # increase the length of the processor input queue
>>> net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 250000
>>> # recommended default congestion control is htcp
>>> net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=htcp
>>> # recommended for hosts with jumbo frames enabled
>>> net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing=1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Thomas W.
>>> Sr.  Systems Administrator COLA/IGES
>>> twake at cola.iges.org
>>> Affiliate Computer Scientist GMU
>>>
>>>
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