[Gluster-users] [ovirt-users] ovirt glusterfs performance

Bill James bill.james at j2.com
Thu Feb 11 23:13:13 UTC 2016


xml attached.


On 02/11/2016 12:28 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Bill James <bill.james at j2.com> wrote:
>> thank you for the reply.
>>
>> We setup gluster using the names associated with  NIC 2 IP.
>>   Brick1: ovirt1-ks.test.j2noc.com:/gluster-store/brick1/gv1
>>   Brick2: ovirt2-ks.test.j2noc.com:/gluster-store/brick1/gv1
>>   Brick3: ovirt3-ks.test.j2noc.com:/gluster-store/brick1/gv1
>>
>> That's NIC 2's IP.
>> Using 'iftop -i eno2 -L 5 -t' :
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/testfile bs=1M count=1000 oflag=direct
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 68.0714 s, 15.4 MB/s
> Can you share the xml of this vm? You can find it in vdsm log,
> at the time you start the vm.
>
> Or you can do (on the host):
>
> # virsh
> virsh # list
> (username: vdsm at ovirt password: shibboleth)
> virsh # dumpxml vm-id
>
>> Peak rate (sent/received/total):                      281Mb 5.36Mb
>> 282Mb
>> Cumulative (sent/received/total):                    1.96GB 14.6MB
>> 1.97GB
>>
>> gluster volume info gv1:
>>   Options Reconfigured:
>>   performance.write-behind-window-size: 4MB
>>   performance.readdir-ahead: on
>>   performance.cache-size: 1GB
>>   performance.write-behind: off
>>
>> performance.write-behind: off didn't help.
>> Neither did any other changes I've tried.
>>
>>
>> There is no VM traffic on this VM right now except my test.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/2016 11:55 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Ravishankar N <ravishankar at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> +gluster-users
>>>>
>>>> Does disabling 'performance.write-behind' give a better throughput?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 02/10/2016 11:06 PM, Bill James wrote:
>>>>> I'm setting up a ovirt cluster using glusterfs and noticing not stellar
>>>>> performance.
>>>>> Maybe my setup could use some adjustments?
>>>>>
>>>>> 3 hardware nodes running centos7.2, glusterfs 3.7.6.1, ovirt 3.6.2.6-1.
>>>>> Each node has 8 spindles configured in 1 array which is split using LVM
>>>>> with one logical volume for system and one for gluster.
>>>>> They each have 4 NICs,
>>>>>    NIC1 = ovirtmgmt
>>>>>    NIC2 = gluster  (1GbE)
>>> How do you ensure that gluster trafic is using this nic?
>>>
>>>>>    NIC3 = VM traffic
>>> How do you ensure that vm trafic is using this nic?
>>>
>>>>> I tried with default glusterfs settings
>>> And did you find any difference?
>>>
>>>>> and also with:
>>>>> performance.cache-size: 1GB
>>>>> performance.readdir-ahead: on
>>>>> performance.write-behind-window-size: 4MB
>>>>>
>>>>> [root at ovirt3 test scripts]# gluster volume info gv1
>>>>>
>>>>> Volume Name: gv1
>>>>> Type: Replicate
>>>>> Volume ID: 71afc35b-09d7-4384-ab22-57d032a0f1a2
>>>>> Status: Started
>>>>> Number of Bricks: 1 x 3 = 3
>>>>> Transport-type: tcp
>>>>> Bricks:
>>>>> Brick1: ovirt1-ks.test.j2noc.com:/gluster-store/brick1/gv1
>>>>> Brick2: ovirt2-ks.test.j2noc.com:/gluster-store/brick1/gv1
>>>>> Brick3: ovirt3-ks.test.j2noc.com:/gluster-store/brick1/gv1
>>>>> Options Reconfigured:
>>>>> performance.cache-size: 1GB
>>>>> performance.readdir-ahead: on
>>>>> performance.write-behind-window-size: 4MB
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Using simple dd test on VM in ovirt:
>>>>>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
>>> block size of 1G?!
>>>
>>> Try 1M (our default for storage operations)
>>>
>>>>>         1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 65.9337 s, 16.3 MB/s
>>>>>
>>>>> Another VM not in ovirt using nfs:
>>>>>      dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct
>>>>>         1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 27.0079 s, 39.8 MB/s
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is that expected or is there a better way to set it up to get better
>>>>> performance?
>>> Adding Niels for advice.
>>>
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>>>
>>> Nir
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