[Gluster-users] Gluster Performance - 12 Gbps SSDs and 10 Gbps NIC

Ramon Selga ramon.selga at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 18:52:15 UTC 2023


May ask you which kind of disks you have in this setup? rotational, ssd 
SAS/SATA, nvme?

Is there a RAID controller with writeback caching?

It seems to me your fio test on local brick has a unclear result due to some 
caching.

Try something like (you can consider to increase test file size depending of 
your caching memory) :

fio --size=16G --name=test --filename=/gluster/data/brick/wow --bs=1M 
--nrfiles=1 --direct=1 --sync=0 --randrepeat=0 --rw=write --refill_buffers 
--end_fsync=1 --iodepth=200 --ioengine=libaio

Also remember a replica 3 arbiter 1 volume writes synchronously to two data 
bricks, halving throughput of your network backend.

Try similar fio on gluster mount but I hardly see more than 300MB/s writing 
sequentially on only one fuse mount even with nvme backend. On the other side, 
with 4 to 6 clients, you can easily reach 1.5GB/s of aggregate throughput

To start, I think is better to try with default parameters for your replica volume.

Best regards!

Ramon


El 12/12/23 a les 19:10, Danny ha escrit:
> Sorry, I noticed that too after I posted, so I instantly upgraded to 10. Issue 
> remains.
>
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 1:09 PM Gilberto Ferreira <gilberto.nunes32 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     I strongly suggest you update to version 10 or higher.
>     It's come with significant improvement regarding performance.
>     ---
>     Gilberto Nunes Ferreira
>     (47) 99676-7530 - Whatsapp / Telegram
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     Em ter., 12 de dez. de 2023 às 13:03, Danny <dbray925+gluster at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dbray925%2Bgluster at gmail.com>> escreveu:
>
>         MTU is already 9000, and as you can see from the IPERF results, I've
>         got a nice, fast connection between the nodes.
>
>         On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 9:49 AM Strahil Nikolov
>         <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>             Hi,
>
>             Let’s try the simple things:
>
>             Check if you can use MTU9000 and if it’s possible, set it on the
>             Bond Slaves and the bond devices:
>              ping GLUSTER_PEER -c 10 -M do -s 8972
>
>             Then try to follow up the recommendations from
>             https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_gluster_storage/3.5/html/administration_guide/chap-configuring_red_hat_storage_for_enhancing_performance
>
>
>
>             Best Regards,
>             Strahil Nikolov
>
>             On Monday, December 11, 2023, 3:32 PM, Danny
>             <dbray925+gluster at gmail.com <mailto:dbray925%2Bgluster at gmail.com>>
>             wrote:
>
>                 Hello list, I'm hoping someone can let me know what setting I
>                 missed.
>
>                 Hardware:
>                 Dell R650 servers, Dual 24 Core Xeon 2.8 GHz, 1 TB RAM
>                 8x SSD s Negotiated Speed 12 Gbps
>                 PERC H755 Controller - RAID 6
>                 Created virtual "data" disk from the above 8 SSD drives, for a
>                 ~20 TB /dev/sdb
>
>                 OS:
>                 CentOS Stream
>                 kernel-4.18.0-526.el8.x86_64
>                 glusterfs-7.9-1.el8.x86_64
>
>                 IPERF Test between nodes:
>                 [ ID] Interval           Transfer Bitrate         Retr
>                 [  5]   0.00-10.00  sec  11.5 GBytes  9.90 Gbits/sec    0    
>                         sender
>                 [  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  11.5 GBytes  9.86 Gbits/sec          
>                        receiver
>
>                 All good there. ~10 Gbps, as expected.
>
>                 LVM Install:
>                 export DISK="/dev/sdb"
>                 sudo parted --script $DISK "mklabel gpt"
>                 sudo parted --script $DISK "mkpart primary 0% 100%"
>                 sudo parted --script $DISK "set 1 lvm on"
>                 sudo pvcreate --dataalignment 128K /dev/sdb1
>                 sudo vgcreate --physicalextentsize 128K gfs_vg /dev/sdb1
>                 sudo lvcreate -L 16G -n gfs_pool_meta gfs_vg
>                 sudo lvcreate -l 95%FREE -n gfs_pool gfs_vg
>                 sudo lvconvert --chunksize 1280K --thinpool gfs_vg/gfs_pool
>                 --poolmetadata gfs_vg/gfs_pool_meta
>                 sudo lvchange --zero n gfs_vg/gfs_pool
>                 sudo lvcreate -V 19.5TiB --thinpool gfs_vg/gfs_pool -n gfs_lv
>                 sudo mkfs.xfs -f -i size=512 -n size=8192 -d su=128k,sw=10
>                 /dev/mapper/gfs_vg-gfs_lv
>                 sudo vim /etc/fstab
>                 /dev/mapper/gfs_vg-gfs_lv /gluster/data/brick   xfs
>                 rw,inode64,noatime,nouuid 0 0
>
>                 sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo mount -a
>                 fio --name=test --filename=/gluster/data/brick/wow --size=1G
>                 --readwrite=write
>
>                 Run status group 0 (all jobs):
>                   WRITE: bw=2081MiB/s (2182MB/s), 2081MiB/s-2081MiB/s
>                 (2182MB/s-2182MB/s), io=1024MiB (1074MB), run=492-492msec
>
>                 All good there. 2182MB/s =~ 17.5 Gbps. Nice!
>
>
>                 Gluster install:
>                 export NODE1='10.54.95.123'
>                 export NODE2='10.54.95.124'
>                 export NODE3='10.54.95.125'
>                 sudo gluster peer probe $NODE2
>                 sudo gluster peer probe $NODE3
>                 sudo gluster volume create data replica 3 arbiter 1
>                 $NODE1:/gluster/data/brick $NODE2:/gluster/data/brick
>                 $NODE3:/gluster/data/brick force
>                 sudo gluster volume set data network.ping-timeout 5
>                 sudo gluster volume set data performance.client-io-threads on
>                 sudo gluster volume set data group metadata-cache
>                 sudo gluster volume start data
>                 sudo gluster volume info all
>
>                 Volume Name: data
>                 Type: Replicate
>                 Volume ID: b52b5212-82c8-4b1a-8db3-52468bc0226e
>                 Status: Started
>                 Snapshot Count: 0
>                 Number of Bricks: 1 x (2 + 1) = 3
>                 Transport-type: tcp
>                 Bricks:
>                 Brick1: 10.54.95.123:/gluster/data/brick
>                 Brick2: 10.54.95.124:/gluster/data/brick
>                 Brick3: 10.54.95.125:/gluster/data/brick (arbiter)
>                 Options Reconfigured:
>                 network.inode-lru-limit: 200000
>                 performance.md-cache-timeout: 600
>                 performance.cache-invalidation: on
>                 performance.stat-prefetch: on
>                 features.cache-invalidation-timeout: 600
>                 features.cache-invalidation: on
>                 network.ping-timeout: 5
>                 transport.address-family: inet
>                 storage.fips-mode-rchecksum: on
>                 nfs.disable: on
>                 performance.client-io-threads: on
>
>                 sudo vim /etc/fstab
>                 localhost:/data             /data           glusterfs
>                 defaults,_netdev  0 0
>
>                 sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo mount -a
>                 fio --name=test --filename=/data/wow --size=1G --readwrite=write
>
>                 Run status group 0 (all jobs):
>                   WRITE: bw=109MiB/s (115MB/s), 109MiB/s-109MiB/s
>                 (115MB/s-115MB/s), io=1024MiB (1074MB), run=9366-9366msec
>
>                 Oh no, what's wrong? From 2182MB/s down to only 115MB/s? What
>                 am I missing? I'm not expecting the above ~17 Gbps, but I'm
>                 thinking it should at least be close(r) to ~10 Gbps.
>
>                 Any suggestions?
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