Bug 763772 (GLUSTER-2040) - Using 'du' and 'ls' command, it got slow performance
Summary: Using 'du' and 'ls' command, it got slow performance
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: GLUSTER-2040
Product: GlusterFS
Classification: Community
Component: nfs
Version: 3.1.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Shehjar Tikoo
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Reported: 2010-10-29 01:58 UTC by Gluster Fan
Modified: 2011-05-25 08:52 UTC (History)
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Description Gluster Fan 2010-10-29 01:58:11 UTC
My environment is glusterfs release 3.1.0. When using 'du' and 'ls' command to check folder's size and file stat information, it got very slow speed especially having lot files and folders. How to imporve 'du' and 'ls' performance, and when to fix this problem?

Comment 1 Anand Avati 2010-11-02 05:58:57 UTC
PATCH: http://patches.gluster.com/patch/5612 in master (socket: avoid check on lowlat for enabling nodelay)

Comment 2 Gluster Fan 2010-11-02 22:20:46 UTC
How to use this patch to fix the problem?
(In reply to comment #1)
> PATCH: http://patches.gluster.com/patch/5612 in master (socket: avoid check on
> lowlat for enabling nodelay)

Comment 3 Gluster Fan 2010-11-03 00:58:58 UTC
I have patch it on every node of glusterfs. I tried to run 'du', 'ls' and 'rm' command, it look still slowly performance.

Comment 4 Shehjar Tikoo 2010-11-09 03:11:56 UTC
Please try mounting with nordirplus mount option. It is known to improve performance for some apps accessing large directories.

Use the following command:

mount -o nordirplus .........

Comment 5 Gluster Fan 2010-11-09 05:23:47 UTC
I try to mount volume with nordirplus option, but its performance is still slow.
My environment include 20 datanodes, and I create volume cross the 20 datanode. The command like "gluster volume create xxxx replica 2 172.x.x.1:/gfs ........"

Comment 6 Shehjar Tikoo 2011-05-25 05:52:52 UTC
This is an inherent problem when dealing with large directories. Dont think Gluster nfs as a server can do anything to fix it if the client caching of directory entries and attributes is not helping.


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