[Gluster-users] gluster performance really slow

[Michael Taboada]

Hi,
So I used glusterfs a while back on a couple of my vps's to keep web 
server files synced. However, the problem is that I would go to my 
sites, and especially if it need to do lots of file system writing (I 
use wordpress, so for example updating plugins), it would usually time 
out my php scripts. So I did some testing, and I finally figured out 
that the problem seemed to be my gluster volume. I wrote to the mounted 
directory with dd, and got somewhere around 3 MB/s, where my servers are 
all using private ips, so probably have over 1g connections.
I finally switched over to other tools, but none seem to be working as 
well (at least for the updating of files, if not the speed), and I've 
had pretty much show stopper issues with all over them. So here I am, 
and I'm trying to see if I can get the gluster setup right this time.
I read online that if you move your gluster brick to a separate 
partition, it should work better, but I don't believe I can do that with 
my current host. Is there any other way to make the write/read 
performance not so awfully slow without moving it to a separate 
partition? If not, can anyone recommend an alternative that would allow 
me to do that? (I've tried things like unison, osync, and lsyncd, all 
have had major issues so far).
Thanks,
-Michael.