What are some tuning options for a GFS or GFS2 filesystem?
Issue
- Write performance of GFS is extremely slow.
- Write performance of GFS2 is extremely slow.
- A process appears to be hung on a GFS filesystem.
- A process appears to be hung on a GFS2 fileystem.
- Please share GFS2 tuning options/best practices.
Environment
- Red Hat Cluster Suite / GFS 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform (Clustering and GFS/GFS2)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons(GFS2)
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