Description of problem: Small file workloads (create/meta data heavy) perform poorly with Samba/SMB on top of Gluster compared to NFS or native client. On the other hand, on local file systems, SMB is fast. More details to follow.
Created attachment 1106780 [details] Perf stats ion table form showing performance degradation
Ben, May I get an update on the SMB - performance issue, please? Is this a RHEL6, RHEL7, or both fix? Harold
Status Update please.
Harold, We are working on the perf improvement for samba access, here are the patchsets http://review.gluster.org/#/q/project:glusterfs+branch:master+topic:bug-1211863 Hopefully, it will be available in RHGS 3.2
Lot os fixes have gone in 3.2 and 3.3 for the same: 1. md-cache improvements: 3.2 2. Negative lookup cache: 3.3 3. Parallel-readdir: 3.3 Hence will close this as fixed in 3.3. Please test the performance on 3.3 and raise a different BZ for further perf improvements request.