> I have a swift cluster with 7 storagenodes. The cluster has about 360 million > objects with an average size of 170kB. > I added 2 new harddrives to my cluster and now it takes weeks for one > replication round: > Is this a normal behavior?
> Hardware: > DELL PowerEdge R720xd > 32 GB RAM > Harddisks 3TB/4TB SATA I created a blogpost about this a while ago when we hit performance issues with lots of small files with a few things you can look at and tune: http://engineering.spilgames.com/openstack-swift-lots-small-files/ As a small update on the blogpost above: We removed all config 1.X nodes to nodes with config 2.0. We stopped using flashcache, since it was a bit of a pain and without it is also fine for us. As a result a full sync when adding an empty new node is now down to 1-2 days while this used to be 2+ weeks. Cheers, Robert van Leeuwen _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
