Update: after a few hours the CPU usage seems to have dropped down 
to a small value. I did not change anything with respect to the configuration 
or unmount / stop anything as I wanted to see if this would persist for a long 
period of time. Both the client and the self-mounted bricks are now showing CPU 
< 1% (as reported by top). Prior to the larger CPU loads I installed a bunch of 
software into the volume (~ 5 GB total). Is this kind a transient behavior – by 
which I mean larger CPU loads after a lot of filesystem activity in short time 
– typical? This is not a problem in my deployment; I just want to know what to 
expect in the future and to complete this thread for future users. If this is 
expected behavior we can wrap up this thread. If not then I’ll do more digging 
into the logs on the client and brick sides. 

 

            Thanks,

            ~Mike C. 

 

From: Joe Julian [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 2:08 PM
To: Michael Colonno; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] high CPU load on all bricks

 

Check the client log(s). 

Michael Colonno <[email protected]> wrote:

            Forgot to mention: on a client system (not a brick) the glusterfs 
process is consuming ~ 68% CPU continuously. This is a much less powerful 
desktop system so the CPU load can’t be compared 1:1 with the systems 
comprising the bricks but still very high. So the issue seems to exist with 
both glusterfsd and glusterfs processes. 

 

            Thanks,

            ~Mike C. 

 

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Colonno
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Gluster-users] high CPU load on all bricks

 

            Gluster gurus ~

 

            I’ve deployed and 8-brick (2x replicate) Gluster 3.3.1 volume on 
CentOS 6.3 with tcp transport. I was able to build, start, mount, and use the 
volume. On each system contributing a brick, however, my CPU usage (glusterfsd) 
is hovering around 20% (virtually zero memory usage thankfully). These are 
brand new, fairly beefy servers so 20% CPU load is quite a bit. The deployment 
is pretty plain with each brick mounting the volume to itself via a glusterfs 
mount. I assume this type of CPU usage is atypically high; is there anything I 
can do to investigate what’s soaking up CPU and minimize it? Total usable 
volume size is only about 22 TB (about 45 TB total with 2x replicate). 

 

            Thanks,

            ~Mike C. 

 


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