[Gluster-users] GFS performance under heavy traffic

[David Cunningham]

Hi Strahil,

The chart attached to my original email is taken from the GFS server.

I'm not sure what you mean by accessing all bricks simultaneously. We've
mounted it from the client like this:
gfs1:/gvol0 /mnt/glusterfs/ glusterfs
defaults,direct-io-mode=disable,_netdev,backupvolfile-server=gfs2,fetch-attempts=10
0 0

Should we do something different to access all bricks simultaneously?

Thanks for your help!


On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 at 11:47, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm not sure if you did measure the traffic from client side (tcpdump on a
> client machine) or from Server side.
>
> In both cases , please verify that the client accesses all bricks
> simultaneously, as this can cause unnecessary heals.
>
> Have you thought about upgrading to v6? There are some enhancements in v6
> which could be beneficial.
>
> Yet, it is indeed strange that so much traffic is generated with FUSE.
>
> Another aproach is to test with NFSGanesha which suports pNFS and can
> natively speak with Gluster, which cant bring you closer to the previous
> setup and also provide some extra performance.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
>
>
>
> В четвъртък, 19 декември 2019 г., 02:28:55 ч. Гринуич+2, David Cunningham <
> dcunningham at voisonics.com> написа:
>
>
> Hi Raghavendra and Strahil,
>
> We are using GFS version 5.6-1.el7 from the CentOS repository.
> Unfortunately we can't modify the application and it expects to read and
> write from a normal filesystem.
>
> There's around 25GB of data being written during a business day, so over
> 10 hours that's around 0.7 MBps, which has me mystified as to how it can
> generate 114MBps of network traffic. Granted we have read traffic as well,
> but still. The chart shows much more inbound traffic to the GFS server than
> outbound, suggesting the problem is with data writes.
>
> Is it possible with GFS to not check with the other nodes when reading?
> Our data is mostly static and we don't require 100% guarantee that the data
> is up-to-date when reading.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 16:39, Raghavendra Gowdappa <rgowdapp at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> What version of Glusterfs are you using? Though, not sure what's the root
> cause of your problem, just wanted to point out a bug with read-ahead which
> would cause read-amplification over network [1][2], which should be fixed
> in recent versions.
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1214489
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1393419
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 2:50 AM David Cunningham <
> dcunningham at voisonics.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We switched a production system to using GFS instead of NFS at the
> weekend, however it didn't go well on Monday when full load hit. The
> application started crashing regularly and we had to revert to NFS. It
> seems that the problem was high network traffic used by GFS.
>
> We've two GFS nodes plus one arbiter node, each about 1.3ms latency from
> each other. Attached is a chart of network traffic on one of the GFS nodes.
> We see that it saturated the 1Gbps link before we reverted to NFS at 15:10.
>
> The question is, why does GFS use so much network traffic and is there
> anything we can do about it? NFS traffic doesn't exceed 4MBps, so 120MBps
> for GFS seems awfully high.
>
> It would also be good to have faster read performance from GFS, but that's
> another issue.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
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