On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Kevin Lemonnier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 07:48:53PM +0530, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote: > > hi, > > A A A A A I want to get a sense of the kinds of applications you > tried > > out on gluster but you had to find other alternatives because gluster > > didn't perform well enough or the soultion would become too expensive > if > > you move to all SSD kind of setup. > > Hi, > > Web Hosting is what comes to mind for me. Applications like prestashop, > wordpress, > some custom apps ... I know that I try to use DRBD as much as I can for > that since > GlusterFS makes the sites just way too slow to use, I tried both fuse and > NFS (not > ganesha since I'm on debian everytime though, don't know if that matters). > Using things like OPCache and moving the application's cache outside of > the volume > are helping a lot but that brings a whole loads of other problems you > can't always > deal with, so most of the time I just don't use gluster for that. > > Last time I really had to use gluster to host a web app I ended up > installing a VM > with a disk stored on glusterfs and configuring a simple NFS server, that > was way > faster than mounting a gluster volume directly on the web servers. At > least that > proves VM hosting works pretty well now though ! > > Now I can't try tiering, unfortunatly I don't have the option of having > hardware for > that, but maybe that would indeed solve it if it makes looking up lots of > tiny files > quicker. > I guess website hosting could be small-file workload related? Tiering may not help here until we reduce network round trips. I was wondering if anyone has any write intensive workload that gluster couldn't keep up with and they had to move to SSDs to make sure gluster works fine with it. > > -- > Kevin Lemonnier > PGP Fingerprint : 89A5 2283 04A0 E6E9 0111 > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > -- Pranith
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