A gfs2 filesystem suffers performance degradation when multiple process are spawned at the same time that are writing to the filesystem

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Issue

  • A gfs2 filesystem suffers performance degradation when multiple process are spawned at the same time (on the same cluster node) that are writing to the same filesystem.
  • A gfs2 filesystem had write imbalance when iozone was ran on the filesystem.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, 8 (with the High Availability Add On and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • A Global Filesystem 2(gfs2)

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