[DRBD-user] Protocol A Pending

J.R. Lillard jlillard at ghfllc.com
Mon Jun 25 17:17:40 CEST 2012

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Andreas Kurz <andreas at hastexo.com> wrote:

> On 06/22/2012 09:38 PM, J.R. Lillard wrote:
> > Witnessed another bandwidth spike that slowed my stacked layer down.
> >
> > 10: cs:Connected ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate A r-----
> >     ns:192538032 nr:0 dw:599650316 dr:1701817080 al:4481613 bm:43214
> > lo:1 pe:2050 ua:0 ap:2049 ep:1 wo:f oos:0
> >         resync: used:0/61 hits:3274 misses:165 starving:0 dirty:0
> > changed:165
> >         act_log: used:135/3833 hits:788561 misses:25007 starving:0
> > dirty:28 changed:24979
>
> You also increased al-extents for the lower-level DRBD device of your
> stacked resource?
>

Yes.  They are also at 3833 now.


>
> Regards,
> Andreas
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> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM, J.R. Lillard <jlillard at ghfllc.com
> > <mailto:jlillard at ghfllc.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     My starving count was pretty high.  I maxed out my al-extents and
> >     will see if that helps.  Thanks.
> >
> >
> >     On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Andreas Kurz <andreas at hastexo.com
> >     <mailto:andreas at hastexo.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         On 06/20/2012 11:51 PM, J.R. Lillard wrote:
> >         > I have a lower-level setup on Protocol C and a stacked layer
> >         of Protocol
> >         > A going through Proxy over a WAN.  There are times when my
> >         disk activity
> >         > spikes causing the Proxy buffers to fill up a bit.  While this
> is
> >         > happening the Pending count on my stacked resources goes up
> >         and causes
> >         > my access to those resources to slow down.  Is this normal?  I
> >         thought
> >         > with Protocol A as soon as my local write was finished things
> >         would
> >         > continue.
> >
> >         You checked that you are not running out of activity log extents
> >         for the
> >         stacked resource?
> >
> >         Do an: echo 1 >/sys/module/drbd/parameters/proc_details
> >
> >         ... and have a look at "starving" counter in /proc/drbd ...
> should
> >         ideally be 0 and definitely not increasing regularly. If it does,
> >         increase the al-extents value for the stacked resource (max is
> >         3833 in
> >         drbd 8.3 ... IIRC)
> >
> >         Regards,
> >         Andreas
> >
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J.R. Lillard
System / Network Admin
Web Programmer
Golden Heritage Foods
120 Santa Fe St.
Hillsboro, KS  67063
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