[Gluster-users] Performance drop when upgrading from 3.8 to 6.5

Strahil hunter86_bg at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 29 13:11:45 UTC 2019


Hi Riccardo,

You can set your mounts with 'noatime,nodiratime' options for better performance.

Best  Regards,
Strahil NikolovOn Oct 29, 2019 12:50, Riccardo Murri <riccardo.murri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Anoop, 
>
> many thanks for your fast reply!  My comments inline below: 
>
>
> > > [1]: I have tried both the config where SAMBA 4.8 is using the 
> > > vfs_glusterfs.so backend, and the one where `smbd` is just writing to 
> > > a locally-mounted directory.  Doesn't seem to make a difference. 
> > 
> > Samba v4.8 is an EOL ed version. Please consider updating Samba to at 
> > least v4.9(rather v4.10) or higher. 
>
> This is going to be tricky: I could find no backport package of recent 
> SAMBA to Ubuntu 16.04; I am using this one which has SAMBA 4.8 
> https://launchpad.net/~mumblepins 
>
> More recent packages from either the Ubuntu or Debian repositories do 
> not build on Ubuntu 16.04 because of changes in the packaging 
> infrastructure. 
>
> Anyway, I was running SAMBA 4.8 before the upgrade and still getting 
> 40MB/s, so I don't think SAMBA is the core of the issue... 
>
> > Can you paste the output of `testparm -s` along with the output of 
> > `gluster volume info <VOLNAME>` ? 
>
> Here's `testparm -s` on the server using `vfs_glusterfs` (the "active" 
> share is the one with the perf problems):: 
>
> ``` 
> $ testparm -s 
> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf 
> rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384) 
> WARNING: The "syslog only" option is deprecated 
> Processing section "[homes]" 
> Processing section "[active]" 
> Loaded services file OK. 
> WARNING: some services use vfs_fruit, others don't. Mounting them in 
> conjunction on OS X clients results in undefined behaviour. 
>
> Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE 
>
> # Global parameters 
> [global] 
>     dns proxy = No 
>     load printers = No 
>     map to guest = Bad User 
>     name resolve order = lmhosts 
>     netbios name = REDACTED1 
>     obey pam restrictions = Yes 
>     pam password change = Yes 
>     passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n 
> *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . 
>     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u 
>     printcap cache time = 0 
>     printcap name = /dev/null 
>     security = USER 
>     server role = standalone server 
>     server string = SAMBA Server %v 
>     syslog only = Yes 
>     unix password sync = Yes 
>     workgroup = REDACTED 
>     idmap config * : backend = tdb 
>
>
> [homes] 
>     browseable = No 
>     comment = Work Directories 
>     create mask = 0700 
>     directory mask = 0700 
>     read only = No 
>     valid users = %S 
>     vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr 
>
>
> [active] 
>     create mask = 0775 
>     directory mask = 0775 
>     kernel share modes = No 
>     path = /active 
>     read only = No 
>     vfs objects = glusterfs 
>     glusterfs:volume = glusterfs 
>     glusterfs:volfile_server = glusterfs5 glusterfs4 glusterfs3 
> glusterfs2 glusterfs1 
>     glusterfs:logfile = /var/log/samba/glusterfs-vol-active.log 
>     glusterfs:loglevel = 1 
> ``` 
>
>
> Here's `testparm -s` on the server writing directly to the GlusterFS 
> mount point:: 
>
> ``` 
> $ testparm -s 
> Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf 
> rlimit_max: increasing rlimit_max (1024) to minimum Windows limit (16384) 
> WARNING: The "syslog only" option is deprecated 
> Processing section "[homes]" 
> Processing section "[active]" 
> Loaded services file OK. 
> WARNING: some services use vfs_fruit, others don't. Mounting them in 
> conjunction on OS X clients results in undefined behaviour. 
>
> Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE 
>
> # Global parameters 
> [global] 
>     allow insecure wide links = Yes 
>     dns proxy = No 
>     load printers = No 
>     map to guest = Bad User 
>     name resolve order = lmhosts 
>     netbios name = REDACTED2 
>     obey pam restrictions = Yes 
>     pam password change = Yes 
>     passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n 
> *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . 
>     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u 
>     printcap cache time = 0 
>     printcap name = /dev/null 
>     security = USER 
>     server role = standalone server 
>     server string = SAMBA Server %v 
>     syslog only = Yes 
>     unix password sync = Yes 
>     workgroup = REDACTED 
>     idmap config * : backend = tdb 
>
>
> [homes] 
>     browseable = No 
>     comment = Work Directories 
>     create mask = 0700 
>     directory mask = 0700 
>     read only = No 
>     valid users = %S 
>     vfs objects = fruit streams_xattr 
>
>
> [active] 
>     create mask = 0775 
>     directory mask = 0775 
>     path = /data/active 
>     read only = No 
>     wide links = Yes 
> ``` 
>
> Here's the volume info: 
> ``` 
> $ sudo gluster volume info glusterfs 
>
> Volume Name: glusterfs 
> Type: Distribute 
> Volume ID: a3358ff6-5cec-4a65-9ecf-a63bbe56dfd9 
> Status: Started 
> Snapshot Count: 0 
> Number of Bricks: 5 
> Transport-type: tcp 
> Bricks: 
> Brick1: glusterfs5:/srv/glusterfs 
> Brick2: glusterfs4:/srv/glusterfs 
> Brick3: glusterfs3:/srv/glusterfs 
> Brick4: glusterfs1:/srv/glusterfs 
> Brick5: glusterfs2:/srv/glusterfs 
> Options Reconfigured: 
> diagnostics.client-log-level: WARNING 
> diagnostics.brick-log-level: INFO 
> features.uss: disable 
> features.barrier: disable 
> performance.client-io-threads: on 
> transport.address-family: inet 
> nfs.disable: on 
> snap-activate-on-create: enable 
> ``` 
>
>
> > > [2]: Actually, since the servers are VMs on an OpenStack cloud, I 
> > > created new virtual machines, installed GlusterFS 6 fresh, mounted 
> > > the old bricks in the same brick locations, 
> > 
> > How did you mount old bricks in the new location? 
>
> They're `ext4` disks: 
> ``` 
> $ fgrep glusterfs /etc/fstab 
> LABEL=/srv/glusterfs /srv/glusterfs ext4 rw 0 0 
> ``` 
>
> Actually, the GlusterFS volume is 95% full -- could this have an impact? 
>
> Thanks, 
> Riccardo 
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