[Gluster-users] Slow write times to gluster disk
Ravishankar N
ravishankar at redhat.com
Fri Apr 14 07:01:41 UTC 2017
On 04/14/2017 12:20 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Ravishankar N <ravishankar at redhat.com
> <mailto:ravishankar at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Pat,
>
> I'm assuming you are using gluster native (fuse mount). If it
> helps, you could try mounting it via gluster NFS (gnfs) and then
> see if there is an improvement in speed. Fuse mounts are slower
> than gnfs mounts but you get the benefit of avoiding a single
> point of failure. Unlike fuse mounts, if the gluster node
> containing the gnfs server goes down, all mounts done using that
> node will fail). For fuse mounts, you could try tweaking the
> write-behind xlator settings to see if it helps. See the
> performance.write-behind and performance.write-behind-window-size
> options in `gluster volume set help`. Of course, even for gnfs
> mounts, you can achieve fail-over by using CTDB.
>
>
> Ravi,
> Do you have any data that suggests fuse mounts are slower than
> gNFS servers?
I have heard anecdotal evidence time and again on the ML and IRC, which
is why I wanted to compare it with NFS numbers on his setup.
>
> Pat,
> I see that I am late to the thread, but do you happen to have
> "profile info" of the workload?
>
> You can follow
> https://gluster.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Administrator%20Guide/Monitoring%20Workload/
> to get the information.
Yeah, Let's see if profile info shows up anything interesting.
-Ravi
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
>
>
> On 04/08/2017 12:07 AM, Pat Haley wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We noticed a dramatic slowness when writing to a gluster disk
>> when compared to writing to an NFS disk. Specifically when using
>> dd (data duplicator) to write a 4.3 GB file of zeros:
>>
>> * on NFS disk (/home): 9.5 Gb/s
>> * on gluster disk (/gdata): 508 Mb/s
>>
>> The gluser disk is 2 bricks joined together, no replication or
>> anything else. The hardware is (literally) the same:
>>
>> * one server with 70 hard disks and a hardware RAID card.
>> * 4 disks in a RAID-6 group (the NFS disk)
>> * 32 disks in a RAID-6 group (the max allowed by the card,
>> /mnt/brick1)
>> * 32 disks in another RAID-6 group (/mnt/brick2)
>> * 2 hot spare
>>
>> Some additional information and more tests results (after
>> changing the log level):
>>
>> glusterfs 3.7.11 built on Apr 27 2016 14:09:22
>> CentOS release 6.8 (Final)
>> RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS-3
>> 3108 [Invader] (rev 02)
>>
>>
>>
>> *Create the file to /gdata (gluster)*
>> [root at mseas-data2 gdata]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/gdata/zero1 bs=1M
>> count=1000
>> 1000+0 records in
>> 1000+0 records out
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.91876 s, *546 MB/s*
>>
>> *Create the file to /home (ext4)*
>> [root at mseas-data2 gdata]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/zero1 bs=1M
>> count=1000
>> 1000+0 records in
>> 1000+0 records out
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 0.686021 s, *1.5 GB/s - *3
>> times as fast*
>>
>>
>> Copy from /gdata to /gdata (gluster to gluster)
>> *[root at mseas-data2 gdata]# dd if=/gdata/zero1 of=/gdata/zero2
>> 2048000+0 records in
>> 2048000+0 records out
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 101.052 s, *10.4 MB/s* -
>> realllyyy slooowww
>>
>>
>> *Copy from /gdata to /gdata* *2nd time *(gluster to gluster)**
>> [root at mseas-data2 gdata]# dd if=/gdata/zero1 of=/gdata/zero2
>> 2048000+0 records in
>> 2048000+0 records out
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 92.4904 s, *11.3 MB/s* -
>> realllyyy slooowww again
>>
>>
>>
>> *Copy from /home to /home (ext4 to ext4)*
>> [root at mseas-data2 gdata]# dd if=/home/zero1 of=/home/zero2
>> 2048000+0 records in
>> 2048000+0 records out
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 3.53263 s, *297 MB/s *30 times
>> as fast
>>
>>
>> *Copy from /home to /home (ext4 to ext4)*
>> [root at mseas-data2 gdata]# dd if=/home/zero1 of=/home/zero3
>> 2048000+0 records in
>> 2048000+0 records out
>> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 4.1737 s, *251 MB/s* - 30 times
>> as fast
>>
>>
>> As a test, can we copy data directly to the xfs mountpoint
>> (/mnt/brick1) and bypass gluster?
>>
>>
>> Any help you could give us would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>>
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