<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I have two server nodes, gluster1 & gluster2 ,running on Ubuntu 14.04, and is using gluster ver 3.7.6 . I am using fio tools ver 2.6 for testing performance.(IO engine= libaio)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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(8 core , i7/3.4GHz) with SSD (random rw performance without
glusterFS is ~14MB/s with ext4 FS, 150 GB ), while </span></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">gluster2 is a Pentium g840 CPU (2 core, 2.8GHz) with a WD HDD of
1 TB size.(random rw performance without glusterFS is ~500KB/s only with
ext4).</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">1. I see gluster1 seq read performance is much higher than gluster 2. See below data(in KB/s).</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Is this because gluster1 CPU is better and it is using SSD ?(replica 2)</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"></span><br></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"></span><br></p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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