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On 12/09/2015 12:46 PM, Tim wrote:<br>
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<tt>Hi List,</tt><tt><br>
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</tt><tt>I was wondering if anyone has implemented gluster
successfully in AWS, and has some tips on streamlining the
process to increase throughput and possibly reduce latency.
(Sorry in advance if this list has seen this problem a lot)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>My current setup is as follows;</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>gfs-server1 - ap-southeast-2 (AZ1)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>gfs-server2 - ap-southeast-2 (AZ2)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>gfs-server3 - ap-southeast-1 (AZ1) (Arbiter)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>web-server1 - apsoutheast2-az1 (Mounted as gluster/nfs to
gfs-server1)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>web-server2 - apsoutheast2-az2 (Mounted as gluster/nfs to
gfs-server2)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
Using latest 3.7 package from the Ubuntu launchpad ppa. <br>
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</tt><tt>I have one server in each availability zone within
Australia with the arbiter volume over in Singapore. This will
hopefully act as a fall back if ever there is a problem
connecting internally between the two availability zones in the
same region. Assuming each gluster server can router externally
and not internally. </tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
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<tt>I think when you say volumes, you actually mean bricks. i.e. 2
bricks of the arbiter volume are in Australia and the 3rd brick in
Singapore. This is not really recommended. It would be better to
locate all bricks (and clients too) of a volume in the same region
(you could still use different availability zones in the same
region). gluster's replication module winds every write from the
client to all bricks of the replica. So the closer they are, the
faster it would be.<br>
<br>
<br>
</tt>
<blockquote cite="mid:5667D54F.2090606@slowb.ro" type="cite"><tt> </tt><tt>This
is for a webserver with a lot of wordpress + magento
installations. So it has a lot of files</tt><tt>. <br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>I mounted the gluster volume and started copying across
the files and it was terribly slow. (See below for data)</tt><tt>
[1]<br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>My Questions are as follows:</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>I see from the archives and FAQ's that people have sped
up copies by using xargs and having multiple threads per sub
folders. While this is a good idea, is there any other way to
increase throughput?</tt><tt><br>
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<tt></tt>
<blockquote cite="mid:5667D54F.2090606@slowb.ro" type="cite"><tt> </tt><tt>Also
I did a few tests against different mount points on NFS and
GlusterFS to see what the difference was, and NFS kicks the
glusterfs mount out of the park. Is there a specific reason for
this?</tt><br>
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<tt><br>
For FUSE mounts, the replication happen from the client machine
while for NFS, it happens from the server which was used for
mounting the volume. This could be the reason since the client is
farther away while the servers (2 of them at least) are in the
same region.</tt><br>
<blockquote cite="mid:5667D54F.2090606@slowb.ro" type="cite"> <tt><tt>Would
removing the arbiter volume or assuming for example sake; that
there was a third availability zone in ap-southeast-2 so
latency was not an issue, increase my throughput? As the
gluster-client has to write the </tt>data to the 2 gluster
volumes and the meta-data to the arbiter would this help in
reducing the time per file?<br>
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<tt>You could see if locating all 3 servers and the clients on the
same region helps improve performance.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Ravi<br>
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(Also a non-gluster question that no-one has to answer, has
anyone tried Amazons' Elastic File System (EFS) and is it
comparable to gluster?)<br>
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<br>
Thank you for reading the wall of text, and I appreciate all the
hard work everyone has put into this great product. <br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Tim<br>
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[1] Data:<br>
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<pre><code>time cp -Rv wordpress/ /var/gluster-nfs/dir/wordpress/
real 165m4.445s
user 0m0.592s
sys 0m3.227s</code></pre>
<pre><code>du -shc wordpress/
374M wordpress/
find wordpress/ | wc -l
4955
(It works out to be on average 2 seconds per file)
</code></pre>
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<tt>NFS DD Write: </tt>
<pre><code>sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=1024 412738+0 records in
412738+0 records out
422643712 bytes (423 MB) copied, 85.4381 s, 4.9 MB/s</code></pre>
<tt> </tt>
<p><tt>GlusterFS DD Write (1): </tt></p>
<tt> </tt>
<pre><code>sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=./testgf bs=1024k count=10000
12+0 records in
12+0 records out
12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 117.974 s, 107 kB/s</code></pre>
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<p><tt>GlusterFS DD Write: (2):</tt></p>
<tt> </tt>
<pre><code>sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=./testgf1 bs=1024 count=10000 10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 56.8728 s, 180 kB/s</code></pre>
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