I had very similar experience, with both OCFS2 and GFS. I was running 'iozone -s 262144 -r 1k' and when I had both nodes mount the partition and run the benchmark, the wallclock time was 3 or 4 times that of a single node (which was comparable to ext3 performance). Each node had 256MB of memory since I wanted to minimize (but not completely eliminate) effects of buffer cache.

I am attaching the numbers, if anyone is interested.

-boris


Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:51:31 -0300
From: "Marcio Costa" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Ocfs2-users] RHEL4 x86_64 OCFS2 10gR2 performance
To: "[email protected]" < [email protected]>
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Hi,

I have 2 IBM x346 eServers, both of them with 2 Qlogic HBAs (qla2340). They
are connected rendundantly to a IBM DS4300 (fiber storage). I have Oracle
10gR2 RAC installed. RHEL4 U2 x86_64. My problem is the following:

Each server works very well, if alone,ie, if the other one has not mounted
the ocfs2 partition. But when both of them are working, the performance goes
to hell.
For example: there is a job that, when it runs on one server alone, takes 4
seconds, but when I put both servers on line, it takes 3 minutes.

What could it be ? Is there any conf that I could check. I was thinking
about change the ocfs2 for other fs (gfs or other)... could it be the case ?

Thanks in advance.

Marcio Costa.


                                                        random  random  bkwd    
record  stride
                        write   rewrite read    reread  read    write   read    
rewrite read    fwrite  frewrite fread  freread


ext3            12.5min 113718  8335    91962   186143  4345    515     9612    
258904  6002    112859  7230    76225   139576
gfs             13.5min 27217   8337    50117   62312   1611    604     8233    
81180   5749    33633   7958    53301   40331
ocfs2           14.5min 42102   9345    65887   92481   1210    566     8136    
155370  5605    41571   8699    78925   71724

gfs(n1)         46min   21467   5159    29705   35512   348     172     808     
81188   4970    32680   8039    35667   58961
gfs(n2)         48min   40046   3493    29565   25093   504     327     906     
81390   456     30035   4085    24953   22493

ocfs2 (n1)      38min   26813   4375    27406   27408   367     251     892     
156194  5038    49998   8882    80288   111914
ocfs2 (n2)      35.5min 22756   5330    36728   29607   673     400     907     
153949  953     45964   5117    34055   40158


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