A Performance Study of the Babel File System

The performance of a distributed file system is defined by its hardware components, as well as its operational parameters. Even a slight change on a working condition may induce the major impact, for instance, on service response times. In this paper, we propose a set of experiments on the Babel file system using a client that sends requests for either file storage or retrieval, with two file sizes (512 MB and 1 GB). The aim is to achieve the best working conditions. To measure the performance of the Babel system we took the throughput and the response time when any of two operations (storage or retrieval) was running. The analysis of results showed that, for a given set of operational parameters, there is an optimal file size that gets the best out of the system's performance.