<div dir="ltr">Khoi:<div><br></div><div>From the discussions I've seen here, and some documentation on the web, the gluster client has some issues with small files access. </div><div><br></div><div>As a matter of fact, gluster tends to perform a little less well with small files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is a number of things that can be done in order to improve this.</div><div><br></div><div>Connecting to the servers using NFS, changing how the NFS mount is mounted (size of buffers, etc), a few gluster parameters on the volumes, some network sysctl changes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Those need to be tested on your application, and always on a non-production environment, preferably. But, as I said, there are ways around it.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><div>
Carlos</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Khoi Mai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:KHOIMAI@up.com" target="_blank">KHOIMAI@up.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font face="sans-serif">Community,</font><br><br><font face="sans-serif">My management wants me to build a deeper
understanding and explain to them as we migrate over to glusterfs from
traditional NFS, why latency has increased. We are currently using
rhel 6.5 and glusterfs-fuse-3.4.2-1 version.</font><br><br><font face="sans-serif">Latency has increased on our apache
servers, not significantly, but enough to change our baseline.</font><br><font face="sans-serif"><br><br>Khoi<br><br></font><br>
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