[Gluster-users] [ovirt-users] Very poor GlusterFS performance

[Krutika Dhananjay]

Couple of things:

1. Like Darrell suggested, you should enable stat-prefetch and increase
client and server event threads to 4.
# gluster volume set <VOL> performance.stat-prefetch on
# gluster volume set <VOL> client.event-threads 4
# gluster volume set <VOL> server.event-threads 4

2. Also glusterfs-3.10.1 and above has a shard performance bug fix -
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/16966/

With these two changes, we saw great improvement in performance in our
internal testing.

Do you mind trying these two options above?

-Krutika

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Lindsay Mathieson <
lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you tried with:
>
> performance.strict-o-direct : off
> performance.strict-write-ordering : off
>
> They can be changed dynamically.
>
>
> On 20 June 2017 at 17:21, Sahina Bose <sabose at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> [Adding gluster-users]
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Chris Boot <bootc at bootc.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> I have 3x servers in a "hyper-converged" oVirt 4.1.2 + GlusterFS 3.10
>>> configuration. My VMs run off a replica 3 arbiter 1 volume comprised of
>>> 6 bricks, which themselves live on two SSDs in each of the servers (one
>>> brick per SSD). The bricks are XFS on LVM thin volumes straight onto the
>>> SSDs. Connectivity is 10G Ethernet.
>>>
>>> Performance within the VMs is pretty terrible. I experience very low
>>> throughput and random IO is really bad: it feels like a latency issue.
>>> On my oVirt nodes the SSDs are not generally very busy. The 10G network
>>> seems to run without errors (iperf3 gives bandwidth measurements of >=
>>> 9.20 Gbits/sec between the three servers).
>>>
>>> To put this into perspective: I was getting better behaviour from NFS4
>>> on a gigabit connection than I am with GlusterFS on 10G: that doesn't
>>> feel right at all.
>>>
>>> My volume configuration looks like this:
>>>
>>> Volume Name: vmssd
>>> Type: Distributed-Replicate
>>> Volume ID: d5a5ddd1-a140-4e0d-b514-701cfe464853
>>> Status: Started
>>> Snapshot Count: 0
>>> Number of Bricks: 2 x (2 + 1) = 6
>>> Transport-type: tcp
>>> Bricks:
>>> Brick1: ovirt3:/gluster/ssd0_vmssd/brick
>>> Brick2: ovirt1:/gluster/ssd0_vmssd/brick
>>> Brick3: ovirt2:/gluster/ssd0_vmssd/brick (arbiter)
>>> Brick4: ovirt3:/gluster/ssd1_vmssd/brick
>>> Brick5: ovirt1:/gluster/ssd1_vmssd/brick
>>> Brick6: ovirt2:/gluster/ssd1_vmssd/brick (arbiter)
>>> Options Reconfigured:
>>> nfs.disable: on
>>> transport.address-family: inet6
>>> performance.quick-read: off
>>> performance.read-ahead: off
>>> performance.io-cache: off
>>> performance.stat-prefetch: off
>>> performance.low-prio-threads: 32
>>> network.remote-dio: off
>>> cluster.eager-lock: enable
>>> cluster.quorum-type: auto
>>> cluster.server-quorum-type: server
>>> cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full
>>> cluster.locking-scheme: granular
>>> cluster.shd-max-threads: 8
>>> cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000
>>> features.shard: on
>>> user.cifs: off
>>> storage.owner-uid: 36
>>> storage.owner-gid: 36
>>> features.shard-block-size: 128MB
>>> performance.strict-o-direct: on
>>> network.ping-timeout: 30
>>> cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable
>>>
>>> I would really appreciate some guidance on this to try to improve things
>>> because at this rate I will need to reconsider using GlusterFS
>>> altogether.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Could you provide the gluster volume profile output while you're running
>> your I/O tests.
>>
>> # gluster volume profile <volname> start
>> to start profiling
>>
>> # gluster volume profile <volname> info
>>
>> for the profile output.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chris Boot
>>> bootc at bootc.net
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>>>
>>
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>
>
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> Lindsay
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