[DRBD-user] iowait / Perfomance problems with xen on drbd (centos 5.2)

Florian Haas florian.haas at linbit.com
Tue Aug 19 08:48:17 CEST 2008

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Which I/O scheduler (elevator) are you using on the (real) block devices
that your DRBDs reside on?

Florian

Jan Kellermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have 2 servers on centos5.2 in a cluster with the redhat cman in the
> configuration
> 
> SERVER1 > LVM \
> CMAN           DRBD > XEN
> SERVER2 > LVM /
> 
> For each xen we create a new local LVM on each node, put them in a drbd
> and install an os (debian 4 or ubuntu 8). The xens are running as pvm.
> 
> Everything works fine since over 4 months now.
> 
> But we have some performance-Problems:
> 
> Writing on the Xen-devices produces an iowait about 50 to 60% on the
> xen-processors.
> [...]


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