Please describe the client system. Are you using the same one for CephFS and RBD? Kernel version? BM or VM? KRBD or libvirt/librbd? Which filesystem did you have on the RBD volume, with what mkfs parameters?
> > I was wondering about performance differences between cephfs and rbd, so I > deviced this quick test. The results were pretty surprising to me. > > The test: on a very idle machine, make 2 mounts. One is a cephfs mount, the > other an rbd mount. In each directory, copy a humongous .tgz file (1.5 TB) > and try to untar the file into the directory. The untar on the cephfs > directory took slightly over 2 hours, but on the rbd directory it took almost > a whole day. I repeated the test 3 times and the results were similar each > time. Is there something I'm missing? Is RBD that much slower than cephfs (or > is cephfs that much faster than RBD)? Are there any tuning options I can try > to improve RBD performance? > > # df -h | grep mnt > 10.1.1.150:/ 275T 1.5T 273T 1% /mnt/cephfs > /dev/rbd0 20T 1.5T 19T 8% /mnt/rbd > > bash-4.4$ pwd > /mnt/cephfs/test > bash-4.4$ date; time tar xf exceRptDB_v4_EXOGenomes.tgz; date > Fri Jul 2 13:10:01 PDT 2021 > > real 137m22.601s > user 1m6.222s > sys 35m57.697s > Fri Jul 2 15:27:23 PDT 2021 > > bash-4.4$ pwd > /mnt/rbd/test > bash-4.4$ date; time tar xf exceRptDB_v4_EXOGenomes.tgz; date > Fri Jul 2 15:38:28 PDT 2021 > > real 1422m42.236s > user 1m34.198s > sys 38m48.761s > Sat Jul 3 15:21:10 PDT 2021 > > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io