[Gluster-users] Glusterfs performance tweaks

Punit Dambiwal hypunit at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 07:46:47 UTC 2015


Hi Ben,

-Scheduler {noop or deadline } :- *noop*
-No read ahead! :- *yes*
-No RAID! :- *Yes no RAID*
-Make sure the kernel seems them as SSDs :- *Yes*

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Punit Dambiwal <hypunit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> Yes...i am using 2*10G (Bonding LACP)...
>
> [root at cpu02 ~]# /usr/bin/iperf3 -c 10.10.0.10
>
> Connecting to host 10.10.0.10, port 5201
>
> [  4] local 10.10.0.11 port 45135 connected to 10.10.0.10 port 5201
>
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr  Cwnd
>
> [  4]   0.00-1.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.85 Gbits/sec   13   1.30 MBytes
>
> [  4]   1.00-2.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.91 Gbits/sec    0   1.89 MBytes
>
> [  4]   2.00-3.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    0   2.33 MBytes
>
> [  4]   3.00-4.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.89 Gbits/sec    1   2.41 MBytes
>
> [  4]   4.00-5.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    0   2.42 MBytes
>
> [  4]   5.00-6.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    0   2.53 MBytes
>
> [  4]   6.00-7.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    1   2.53 MBytes
>
> [  4]   7.00-8.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    0   2.68 MBytes
>
> [  4]   8.00-9.00   sec  1.15 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    0   2.76 MBytes
>
> [  4]   9.00-10.00  sec  1.15 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    0   2.88 MBytes
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> [ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth       Retr
>
> [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  11.5 GBytes  9.89 Gbits/sec   15
> sender
>
> [  4]   0.00-10.00  sec  11.5 GBytes  9.89 Gbits/sec
> receiver
>
>
>
> [root at cpu01 ~]# time `dd if=/dev/zero of=/rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/
> 10.10.0.14\:_ds01/myfile bs=1024k count=1000; sync`
>
> 1000+0 records in
>
> 1000+0 records out
>
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 2.70556 s, 388 MB/s
>
>
> real    0m2.815s
>
> user    0m0.002s
>
> sys     0m0.822s
>
>
> [root at cpu01 ~]# time `dd if=/dev/zero of=/rhev/data-center/mnt/glusterSD/
> 10.10.0.14\:_ds01/e732a82f-bae9-4368-8b98-dedc1c3814de/images/myfile
> bs=1024k count=1000; sync`
>
> 1000+0 records in
>
> 1000+0 records out
>
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.93056 s, 543 MB/s
>
>
> real    0m2.077s
>
> user    0m0.002s
>
> sys     0m0.795s
>
> [root at cpu01 ~]#
>
>
> Ban@ how i will check those things :-
>
>
> A couple things to check with your SSDs:
>
> -Scheduler {noop or deadline }
> -No read ahead!
> -No RAID!
> -Make sure the kernel seems them as SSDs
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Punit
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Ben Turner <bturner at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Vijay Bellur" <vbellur at redhat.com>
>> > To: "Punit Dambiwal" <hypunit at gmail.com>, gluster-users at gluster.org
>> > Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2015 6:44:42 AM
>> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Glusterfs performance tweaks
>> >
>> > On 04/08/2015 02:57 PM, Punit Dambiwal wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I am getting very slow throughput in the glusterfs (dead slow...even
>> > > SATA is better) ... i am using all SSD in my environment.....
>> > >
>> > > I have the following setup :-
>> > > A. 4* host machine with Centos 7(Glusterfs 3.6.2 | Distributed
>> > > Replicated | replica=2)
>> > > B. Each server has 24 SSD as bricks…(Without HW Raid | JBOD)
>> > > C. Each server has 2 Additional ssd for OS…
>> > > D. Network 2*10G with bonding…(2*E5 CPU and 64GB RAM)
>> > >
>> > > Note :- Performance/Throughput slower then Normal SATA 7200 RPM…even i
>> > > am using all SSD in my ENV..
>> > >
>> > > Gluster Volume options :-
>> > >
>> > > +++++++++++++++
>> > > Options Reconfigured:
>> > > performance.nfs.write-behind-window-size: 1024MB
>> > > performance.io-thread-count: 32
>> > > performance.cache-size: 1024MB
>> > > cluster.quorum-type: auto
>> > > cluster.server-quorum-type: server
>> > > diagnostics.count-fop-hits: on
>> > > diagnostics.latency-measurement: on
>> > > nfs.disable: on
>> > > user.cifs: enable
>> > > auth.allow: *
>> > > performance.quick-read: off
>> > > performance.read-ahead: off
>> > > performance.io-cache: off
>> > > performance.stat-prefetch: off
>> > > cluster.eager-lock: enable
>> > > network.remote-dio: enable
>> > > storage.owner-uid: 36
>> > > storage.owner-gid: 36
>> > > server.allow-insecure: on
>> > > network.ping-timeout: 0
>> > > diagnostics.brick-log-level: INFO
>> > > +++++++++++++++++++
>> > >
>> > > Test with SATA and Glusterfs SSD….
>> > > ———————
>> > > Dell EQL (SATA disk 7200 RPM)
>> > > —-
>> > > [root at mirror ~]#
>> > > 4096+0 records in
>> > > 4096+0 records out
>> > > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 20.7763 s, 12.9 MB/s
>> > > [root at mirror ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k oflag=dsync
>> > > 4096+0 records in
>> > > 4096+0 records out
>> > > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 23.5947 s, 11.4 MB/s
>> > >
>> > > GlsuterFS SSD
>> > > —
>> > > [root at sv-VPN1 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k oflag=dsync
>> > > 4096+0 records in
>> > > 4096+0 records out
>> > > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 66.2572 s, 4.1 MB/s
>> > > [root at sv-VPN1 ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k oflag=dsync
>> > > 4096+0 records in
>> > > 4096+0 records out
>> > > 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 62.6922 s, 4.3 MB/s
>> > > ————————
>> > >
>> > > Please let me know what i should do to improve the performance of my
>> > > glusterfs…
>> >
>> >
>> > What is the throughput that you get when you run these commands on the
>> > disks directly without gluster in the picture?
>> >
>> > By running dd with dsync you are ensuring that there is no buffering
>> > anywhere in the stack and that is the reason why low throughput is being
>> > observed.
>>
>> This is slow for the env you described.  Are you sure you are using your
>> 10G NICs?  What do you see with iperf between the client and server?  In my
>> env with 12 spinning disks in a RAID 6 + single 10G NIC I get:
>>
>> [root at gqac025 gluster-mount]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=4k
>> oflag=dsync
>> 4096+0 records in
>> 4096+0 records out
>> 268435456 bytes (268 MB) copied, 9.88752 s, 27.1 MB/s
>>
>> A couple things to check with your SSDs:
>>
>> -Scheduler {noop or deadline }
>> -No read ahead!
>> -No RAID!
>> -Make sure the kernel seems them as SSDs
>>
>> As Vijay said you will see WAY better throughput if you get rid of the
>> dsync flag.  Maybe try something like:
>>
>> $ time `dd if=/dev/zero of=/gluster-mount/myfile bs=1024k count=1000;
>> sync`
>>
>> That will give you an idea of what it takes to write to RAM then sync the
>> dirty pages to disk.
>>
>> -b
>>
>> > -Vijay
>> >
>> > -Vijay
>> >
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>>
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