Return-Path: Received: from ausxippc101.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.207]:24211 "EHLO ausxippc101.us.dell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932514Ab1ESMja convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 08:39:30 -0400 From: To: CC: Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 18:09:21 +0530 Subject: RE: Performance Issue with multiple dataserver Message-ID: References: <4DD2A084.1040905@moving-picture.com> <20110518080106.1159c5b8@notabene.brown> <4DD39D39.7010805@moving-picture.com> <20110518161239.GA16835@fieldses.org> <20110519115018.GA31978@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: <20110519115018.GA31978@fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 I have followed the way given on http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Configuring_pNFS/spnfsd . -Taousif -----Original Message----- From: J. Bruce Fields [mailto:bfields@fieldses.org] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 5:20 PM To: Ansari, Taousif - Dell Team Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Performance Issue with multiple dataserver On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:56:44AM +0530, Taousif_Ansari@DELLTEAM.com wrote: > Hi, > > I am using on Server linux-pnfs-2.6.38(linux-pnfs-ae7441f.tar) and on client also linux-pnfs-2.6.38(linux-pnfs-ae7441f.tar) downloaded from http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=bhalevy/linux-pnfs.git;a=summary on Fedora 14. So you're using GFS2 on the server? With what sort of storage? --b. > > Extremely sorry for causing confusing . > -----Original Message----- > From: J. Bruce Fields [mailto:bfields@fieldses.org] > Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:43 PM > To: Ansari, Taousif - Dell Team > Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: Performance Issue with multiple dataserver > > You sent this message as a reply to an unrelated message, which is > confusing to those of us with threaded mail readers. > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 05:24:45PM +0530, Taousif_Ansari@DELLTEAM.com wrote: > > I have done pNFS setup with single Dataserver and Two Dataserver and ran the IOzone tool on both, I found that the performance with multiple dataservers is less than the performance with single dataservers. > > What are you using as the server, and what as the client? > > --b. > > > > > Here are some numbers, which were captured by the IOzone tool. > > > > > > 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 <== Record Length in KB > > With Single Dataserver: > > Read operation for file size 1 MB- 66415 66359 63630 70358 86223 70256 66047 66068 68489 <== IO kB/sec > > Write operation for file size 1 MB- 18827 16920 18846 17039 18896 17009 17173 19206 17947 <== IO kB/sec > > > > With Two Dataservers : > > Read operation for file size 1 MB- 36882 381198 38150 38084 38749 33663 34398 37313 37847 <== IO kB/sec > > Write operation for file size 1 MB- 5461 4661 5586 4870 5227 4922 4214 5572 4658 <== IO kB/sec > > > > > > Can somebody tell me What could be the issue.... > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html