[Gluster-users] Gluster - Performance issue while copying bulk files/folders

Srikanth Mampilakal shrikanth1980 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 14:29:04 UTC 2015


Hi members,

Really appreciate if you can share your thoughts or any feedback for
resolving the slow copy issue

Regards
Srikanth
On 10-Dec-2015 2:12 AM, "Srikanth Mampilakal" <srikanth.mampilakal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I have production gluster file service used as a shared storage where the
> content management system uses it as document root. I have run in to a
> performance issue with the gluster/fuse client.
>
> Looking for your thoughts and experience in resolving Gluster performance
> issues:
>
> Gluster Infrastructure
>
> Gluster version :GlusterFS 3.7.6
>
> 2 gluster nodes of the same config below
>
> Redhat EL7.0-64
> Memory : 4GB
> Processor : 2 x 2.0 Ghz
> Network : 100 Mbps
> File Storage Volume : NETAPP Storage LUN with 2.0 IOPS/GB
>
> Gluster Volume information:
>
> [root at GlusterFileServe1 ~]# gluster volume info
>
> Volume Name: prodcmsroot
> Type: Replicate
> Volume ID: f1284bf0-1939-46f9-a672-a7716e362947
> Status: Started
> Number of Bricks: 1 x 2 = 2
> Transport-type: tcp
> Bricks:
> Brick1: Server1:/glusterfs/brick1/prodcmsroot
> Brick2: Server2:/glusterfs/brick1/prodcmsroot
> Options Reconfigured:
> performance.io-thread-count: 64
> performance.cache-size: 1073741824
> performance.readdir-ahead: on
> performance.write-behind-window-size: 524288
>
> [root at GlusterFileServe1  ~]#
>
> The replication between Gluster node are quick and consistent.
>
> The apache webservers are accessing the Gluster volume using native
> gluster fuse client and located in the same VLAN as the Gluster Server.
>
> GlusterFileServe1:/prodcmsroot  /mnt/glusterfs glusterfs
> direct-io-mode=disable,defaults,_netdev 0 0
>
> The server utilization (memory,cpu,network and disk 1/0) is relatively low
>
> I am experiencing very slow performance while copying multiple
> file/folders (approx 75 MB) and it takes atleast approx 35 min. Even copy a
> folder (with multiple files/subfolders) within the Gluster volume take the
> same time.
>
> However, if I do dd to check the copy speed, I get the below result.
>
> [root at ClientServer ~]#  time sh -c "dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/mnt/testmount/test.tmp bs=4k count=20000 && sync"
> 20000+0 records in
> 20000+0 records out
> 81920000 bytes (82 MB) copied, 17.1357 s, 4.8 MB/s
>
> real    0m17.337s
> user    0m0.031s
> sys     0m0.317s
>
>
> Anyone experience the same kind of performance issue, please let me know
> your thoughts.
>
> Cheers
> Srikanth
>
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