This is very disappointing since GlusterFS markets itself as a solution to deploy VPS servers on.  On the HN itself I get a Unixbench of about 360.

I'm also using an SSH tunnel to secure the communications, but even before that, things seemed very slow.

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                 4        1           Based on the Byte Magazine Unix Benchmark
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    v v       44444       1           v4.1 revisions mostly by David C. Niemi,
     v           4   o   111 - WHT.2  Reston, VA, USA  <niemi@tux.org>

WHT Variant by Andy A. Lee <andylee@dslextreme.com>
See: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=308055


Dhrystone 2 using register variables  1 2

Double-Precision Whetstone  1 2

Execl Throughput  1

Filesystem Throughput 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks  1

Filesystem Throughput 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks  1

Filesystem Throughput 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks  1

Pipe Throughput  1 2

Pipe-based Context Switching  1 2

Process Creation  1

System Call Overhead  1 2

Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)  1

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BYTE UNIX Benchmarks (Version 4.1-wht.2)
System -- Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7PAE #1 SMP Fri Au                                                                             g 21 03:42:35 MSD 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
/dev/simfs            62914560       128  62914432   1% /

Start Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 29 10:46:06 PDT 2009
 10:46:07 up 12:34,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

End Benchmark Run: Thu Oct 29 10:57:12 PDT 2009
 10:57:13 up 12:45,  1 user,  load average: 17.19, 6.09, 2.29


                     INDEX VALUES
TEST                                        BASELINE     RESULT      INDEX

Dhrystone 2 using register variables        376783.7 18960034.8      503.2
Double-Precision Whetstone                      83.1     1033.6      124.4
Execl Throughput                               188.3       22.1        1.2
File Copy 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks         2672.0     7177.0       26.9
File Copy 256 bufsize 500 maxblocks           1077.0     1897.0       17.6
File Read 4096 bufsize 8000 maxblocks        15382.0    53051.0       34.5
Pipe-based Context Switching                 15448.6   524919.6      339.8
Pipe Throughput                             111814.6  1425479.4      127.5
Process Creation                               569.3       70.7        1.2
Shell Scripts (8 concurrent)                    44.8        3.8        0.8
System Call Overhead                        114433.5  2012543.7      175.9
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     FINAL SCORE                                                      28.4