A performance degradation occurs on a gfs2 filesystem as the load increases on RHEL 6 or RHEL 7
Issue
- A write performance degradation occurs on a gfs2 filesystem as the load increases on RHEL 6 or RHEL 7.
- When running the script called
iotest.shorrhel_iotest.sh(which are provided by SAS as benchmarking tool to test filesystem and storage) the write performance of a gfs2 filesystem decreased as the number ofddprocesses increased. - The same problem occurs when doing simultaneous
ddcommands or large simultaneous data writes using more CPU cores on the same node to the same filesystem. - This problem has nothing to do with the performance of the storage (though it still needs to be configured properly). It is about the rate a gfs2 filesystem can take write requests and place them into the page cache.
- Performance seems to be capped at around 800-900 MB/sec per gfs2 filesystem.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6, 7 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- A Global Filesystem 2(
GFS2)
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