[openstack-dev] [cinder] Issue for backup speed
Jae Sang Lee
hyangii at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 01:15:06 UTC 2015
Send without compression is more slower because it send a large data.
In my environment, send 10GB disk to swift except compression spent 6min
40sec but with compression 4min 13sec.
2015-04-02 23:16 GMT+09:00 Murali Balcha <Murali.Balcha at triliodata.com>:
> Just curious. What is the overhead of compression and other backup
> processes? How much time does it take to upload a simple 50GB file to
> swift compare to backup of 50 GB to swift?
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> *From:* Duncan Thomas [mailto:duncan.thomas at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 01, 2015 6:13 AM
> *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder] Issue for backup speed
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> This is something we're working on (I work with the author of the patch
> you referenced) but the refactoring of the backup code in this cycle has
> made progress challenging. If you have a patch that works, please submit
> it, even if it needs some cleaning up, we'd be happy to work with you on
> and testing, cleaning up and improvements.
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> The basic problem is that backup is CPU bound (compression, ssl) so the
> existing parallelisation techniques used in cinder don't help. Running many
> cinder-backup processes can give you good aggregate throughput if you're
> running many backups at once, but this appears not to be a common case,
> even in a large public cloud.
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> On 1 April 2015 at 11:41, Jae Sang Lee <hyangii at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I tested Swift backup driver in Cinder-backup and that performance isn't
> high.
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> In our test environment, The average time for backup 50G volume is 20min.
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> I found a patch for this that add multi thread for swift backup driver(
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/111314) but It's also too slow. It looks
> like that patch doesn't implement thread properly.
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> Is there any improvement way about this? I'd appreciate other's thoughts
> on these issues.
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> Thanks.
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