Bug 1284873

Summary:	Poor performance of directory enumerations over SMB
Product:	[Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Gluster Storage	Reporter:	Michael Adam <madam>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Poornima G <pgurusid>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Turner <bturner>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rhgs-3.1	CC:	amukherj, asrivast, bturner, mzywusko, nlevinki, pgurusid, rcyriac, rhinduja, rjoseph, sankarshan
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	RHGS 3.2.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	glusterfs-3.8.4-3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Enumerating large directories on a Samba client issued a large number of file operations to the gluster volume, slowing directory enumeration performance. Gluster caching has been improved to increase performance in this situation.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2017-03-23 05:24:49 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1294222
Bug Blocks:	1333484, 1351522, 1351530, 1387563

Description Michael Adam 2015-11-24 11:25:56 UTC

Description of problem:

Enumerations of large directories are slow with Samba/SMB on top of Gluster compared to NFS and native client. On the other hand, on local file systems, SMB is fast.

More details to follow.

Comment 5 rjoseph 2016-10-22 13:43:27 UTC

List of patches:

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87024
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/12995

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87025
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/12996

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87026
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/14824

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87027
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/14828

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87028
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/14879

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87029
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/12951

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87030
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/14971

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87031
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15043

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87032
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15069

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87033
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15185

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87034
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15314

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87035
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15045

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87036
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15331

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87037
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15225

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87038
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15224

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87039
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15301

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87040
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15002

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87041
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15300

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87042
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15324

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87043
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15313

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87044
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15193

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87045
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15387

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87046
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15378

RHGS 3.2: https://code.engineering.redhat.com/gerrit/87047
Upstream master: http://review.gluster.org/15398

Comment 7 Ben Turner 2017-02-07 00:50:30 UTC

Marking this verified.  Ls -l tests for me showed:

Before MD Cache - 10m41.861
After MD Cache - 1m45.756s

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-23 05:24:49 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0486.html

Comment 11 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 03:13:41 UTC

The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days