Re: [Gluster-users] very low file creation rate with glusterfs -- result updates

2009-09-13 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Wei Dong wrote: By using booster, I actually avoid being root on the client side. It would be perfect if the servers can also be run by regular users, even if that means that some features have to be deleted. Can someone explain a little bit why the server side must be run by root? There ar

Re: [Gluster-users] very low file creation rate with glusterfs -- result updates

2009-09-13 Thread Wei Dong
Yes, they are all using booster without actually mounting the directory on the client side. - Wei Anand Avati wrote: On 9/13/09, Wei Dong wrote: OK, so the previous good results are indeed too good to be true. Here's a more reasonable evaluation http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wdong/gluster

Re: [Gluster-users] very low file creation rate with glusterfs -- result updates

2009-09-13 Thread Anand Avati
On 9/13/09, Wei Dong wrote: > OK, so the previous good results are indeed too good to be true. Here's a > more reasonable evaluation > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wdong/gluster/large.gif where > I enlarged the number of images created by 10x so everything no longer fit > in main memory. Still

Re: [Gluster-users] very low file creation rate with glusterfs -- result updates

2009-09-12 Thread Wei Dong
OK, so the previous good results are indeed too good to be true. Here's a more reasonable evaluation http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wdong/gluster/large.gif where I enlarged the number of images created by 10x so everything no longer fit in main memory. Still look good to me. Wei Dong wrot

Re: [Gluster-users] very low file creation rate with glusterfs -- result updates

2009-09-11 Thread Wei Dong
By using booster, I actually avoid being root on the client side. It would be perfect if the servers can also be run by regular users, even if that means that some features have to be deleted. Can someone explain a little bit why the server side must be run by root? I know that I should not

Re: [Gluster-users] very low file creation rate with glusterfs -- result updates

2009-09-11 Thread Wei Dong
I think it is fuse that causes the slowness. I ran all experiments with booster enabled and here's the new figure: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~wdong/gluster/summary-booster.gif . The numbers are MUCH better than NFS in most cases except for the local setting, which is not practically intere