[DRBD-user] resync-rate not applied

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn dennisml at conversis.de
Wed Aug 15 02:21:33 CEST 2012

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On 08/14/2012 02:43 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 08/03/2012 03:27 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I just set up a traditional drbd primary/secondary system between two hosts
>> that are connected with gigabit ports. The problem is that the resync rate
>> is only 5M even though in the config file I set it to 40M.
>>
>> I also tried:
>> drbdadm disk-options --resync-rate=40M drbd1
>>
>> which doesn't result in an error but apparently doesn't get applied either.
>> I also tried 1M but that gets ignored too.
>>
>> Any idea what might be going on here?
>> (This is drbd 8.4.1 on a Centos 6.3 system)
> 
> Does nobody have any idea?
> I just had to re-sync and the "want" value jumped around wildly between 0
> K/sec and 80.000 K/sec and the speed it self is terrible:
> 
> 	finish: 0:05:07 speed: 608 (628) want: 7,160 K/sec
> 	finish: 0:04:33 speed: 684 (628) want: 43,760 K/sec
> 	finish: 0:04:38 speed: 680 (628) want: 9,600 K/sec
> 	finish: 0:05:04 speed: 624 (628) want: 0 K/sec
> 	finish: 0:04:51 speed: 648 (628) want: 10,760 K/sec
> 
> It looks like the variable sync mechanism does more harm than good and I
> don't seem to be able to turn it off properly.

Downgrading to DRBD 8.3 fixed this problem so this seems to be an issue
with 8.4.1.

Regards,
  Dennis





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