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

[Vijay Bellur]

On 12/09/2015 07:03 AM, Srikanth Mampilakal wrote:
> 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


The block size used is not ideal for the gluster native client. Can you 
please attempt with a higher block size - 64k or 128k & check the 
throughput?

Regards,
Vijay