Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I know I read it on the www.drbd.org site before putting drbd into use, http://www.drbd.org/performance.html was one place. > > > --On Monday, March 08, 2004 20:12:25 +0100 Lars Ellenberg > <Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com> wrote: > > [ Re: Protocol "B" ] > >> And, though one might think it has better performance, and it was >> *intended* to have better performance, benchmarks show that it >> DOES NOT have better performance. We will eventually find out why, >> and fix it. >> Meanwhile: Use protocoll "C", and enjoy transactional semantics >> *and* best performance for short distance links. >> >> "A" is for long distance / high latency links. >> Using "B" does currently not gain anything, but degrades >> throughput, and loses transactional semantics, so should be avoided. > > > Perhaps a note to that effect can be added to the docs? We went with B > here because if both machines went down at once, we were hosed anyway, > and wanted better performance. *sigh* Time for another maintenance > window (and I just upgraded everything yesterday!) >