<div dir="ltr">Nothing changes afer reformating to xfs. Random freezes in write to existing file from VM (from host everything is ok) :(<div><br></div><div style>gluster version 3.3.1</div><div style>qemu version 1.0</div>
<div style><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/3/2 Joe Julian <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:joe@julianfamily.org" target="_blank">joe@julianfamily.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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    The kernel developers introduced a bug into ext4 that has yet to be
    fixed. If you use xfs you won&#39;t have those hangs.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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    <div>On 03/01/2013 01:30 AM, Nikita A
      Kardashin wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hello again!
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        <div>I am complete rebuild my storage. </div>
        <div>As base: ext4 over mdadm-raid1 </div>
        <div>Gluster volume in distributed-replicated mode with
          settings:</div>
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          <div>Options Reconfigured:</div>
          <div>performance.cache-size: 1024MB</div>
          <div>nfs.disable: on</div>
          <div>performance.write-behind-window-size: 4MB</div>
          <div>performance.io-thread-count: 64</div>
          <div>features.quota: off</div>
          <div>features.quota-timeout: 1800</div>
          <div>performance.io-cache: on</div>
          <div>performance.write-behind: on</div>
          <div>performance.flush-behind: on</div>
          <div>performance.read-ahead: on</div>
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          <div>As result, I got write performance about 80MB/s
            on dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile.bin bs=100M count=10, but I
            also got some strange things.</div>
          <div>If I try to execute above command inside virtual
            machine (KVM), first time all going right - about 900MB/s
            (cache effect, I think), but if I run this test again on
            existing file - task (dd) hungs up and can be stopped only
            by Ctrl+C.</div>
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          <div>Overall virtual system latency is poor too. For
            example, apt-get upgrade upgrading system very, very slow,
            freezing on &quot;Unpacking replacement&quot; and other io-related
            steps. </div>
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          <div>Does glusterfs have any tuning options, that can
            help me?</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2013/2/27 Brian Candler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com" target="_blank">B.Candler@pobox.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
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            <div>On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 02:46:28PM +0000,
              Robert van Leeuwen wrote:<br>
              &gt; You could try to trunk the network on your client but
              10Gbit ethernet ( i suggest to use fiber, because of
              latency issues with copper 10Gbit)<br>
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            Aside: 10G with SFP+ direct-attach cables also works well,
            even though it&#39;s<br>
            copper.  The latency problem is with 10Gbase-T (RJ45 /
            CAT6(a))<br>
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