[ovirt-users] [Gluster-users] Very poor GlusterFS performance

[Lindsay Mathieson]

Have you tried with:

performance.strict-o-direct : off
performance.strict-write-ordering : off

They can be changed dynamically.


On 20 June 2017 at 17:21, Sahina Bose <sabose at redhat.com> wrote:

> [Adding gluster-users]
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Chris Boot <bootc at bootc.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I have 3x servers in a "hyper-converged" oVirt 4.1.2 + GlusterFS 3.10
>> configuration. My VMs run off a replica 3 arbiter 1 volume comprised of
>> 6 bricks, which themselves live on two SSDs in each of the servers (one
>> brick per SSD). The bricks are XFS on LVM thin volumes straight onto the
>> SSDs. Connectivity is 10G Ethernet.
>>
>> Performance within the VMs is pretty terrible. I experience very low
>> throughput and random IO is really bad: it feels like a latency issue.
>> On my oVirt nodes the SSDs are not generally very busy. The 10G network
>> seems to run without errors (iperf3 gives bandwidth measurements of >=
>> 9.20 Gbits/sec between the three servers).
>>
>> To put this into perspective: I was getting better behaviour from NFS4
>> on a gigabit connection than I am with GlusterFS on 10G: that doesn't
>> feel right at all.
>>
>> My volume configuration looks like this:
>>
>> Volume Name: vmssd
>> Type: Distributed-Replicate
>> Volume ID: d5a5ddd1-a140-4e0d-b514-701cfe464853
>> Status: Started
>> Snapshot Count: 0
>> Number of Bricks: 2 x (2 + 1) = 6
>> Transport-type: tcp
>> Bricks:
>> Brick1: ovirt3:/gluster/ssd0_vmssd/brick
>> Brick2: ovirt1:/gluster/ssd0_vmssd/brick
>> Brick3: ovirt2:/gluster/ssd0_vmssd/brick (arbiter)
>> Brick4: ovirt3:/gluster/ssd1_vmssd/brick
>> Brick5: ovirt1:/gluster/ssd1_vmssd/brick
>> Brick6: ovirt2:/gluster/ssd1_vmssd/brick (arbiter)
>> Options Reconfigured:
>> nfs.disable: on
>> transport.address-family: inet6
>> performance.quick-read: off
>> performance.read-ahead: off
>> performance.io-cache: off
>> performance.stat-prefetch: off
>> performance.low-prio-threads: 32
>> network.remote-dio: off
>> cluster.eager-lock: enable
>> cluster.quorum-type: auto
>> cluster.server-quorum-type: server
>> cluster.data-self-heal-algorithm: full
>> cluster.locking-scheme: granular
>> cluster.shd-max-threads: 8
>> cluster.shd-wait-qlength: 10000
>> features.shard: on
>> user.cifs: off
>> storage.owner-uid: 36
>> storage.owner-gid: 36
>> features.shard-block-size: 128MB
>> performance.strict-o-direct: on
>> network.ping-timeout: 30
>> cluster.granular-entry-heal: enable
>>
>> I would really appreciate some guidance on this to try to improve things
>> because at this rate I will need to reconsider using GlusterFS altogether.
>>
>
>
> Could you provide the gluster volume profile output while you're running
> your I/O tests.
>
> # gluster volume profile <volname> start
> to start profiling
>
> # gluster volume profile <volname> info
>
> for the profile output.
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> --
>> Chris Boot
>> bootc at bootc.net
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Lindsay
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