[DRBD-user] DRBD over 10GE, limited throughput

Ben RUBSON ben.rubson at gmail.com
Fri Apr 11 14:03:20 CEST 2014

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2014-04-11 12:30 GMT+02:00 Steve Thompson wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014, Ben RUBSON wrote:
>
>  Replication link is a a 10 Ge link, throughput with iperf (6 threads or
>> more) gives 7.7 Gb/s (918 MB/s) bidirectional.
>> Could be tuned, but well, enough to sustain my RAID array at 680 MB/s.
>> Latency of 10.8 ms between the 2 servers.
>> MTU 9012.
>>
>
> Something that strikes me is your latency and throughput: assuming it is
> not a typo, that latency is remarkably high. Between two of my 10GbE
> servers, I see an average latency of 0.07ms (from ping) and an iperf
> throughput of 9.8 Gb/s with MTU=9000 and 1 thread.
>

Yes I did not tell that replication link is a long distance link, the 2
servers are separated by hundreds of kilometers :-)
Which explains the 10.8 ms latency.

I made further tests, and seems that my issue is that I did not tune my TPC
stack according to the 10 G speed.
However, with tuning (window size &co), I did not manage to go beyond 7.3
Gb/s (iperf, 1 thread).
Without tuning I was at 2.15 Gb/s (iperf, 1 thread).

Did you do something specific to go up to 9.8 Gb/s ?

Thank you !

Best regards,

Ben
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