[Gluster-users] Slow performance from simple tar -x && rm -r benchmark

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Webb
Hi. I've been considering using GlusterFS as backing storage for one of our applications, and wanted to get a feel for its reliability and performance on a toy test cluster. I took two 16-core Opteron 6128 machines running stock linux 3.2.2 kernels with sata-backed ext4 filesystems to use as backi

Re: [Gluster-users] Slow performance from simple tar -x && rm -r benchmark

2012-03-18 Thread Bryan Whitehead
try using xfs instead of ext4. also, for dd, i use the following options to keep each run "true" dd if=/dev/zero of=/glustermount/blah bs=1M count=1 conv=fsync oflag=sync I didn't see any sync's after the tar/rm commands... On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:20 AM, Chris Webb wrote: > Hi. I've been