[DRBD-user] Discarding device blocks very slow

Eric Robinson eric.robinson at psmnv.com
Mon Jul 31 15:56:04 CEST 2017

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


It's been running all night, and still at:

Discarding device blocks : 60297216/322122752

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Eric Robinson
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Physician Select Management, LLC
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-
> bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Eric Robinson
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 2:33 AM
> To: Robert Altnoeder <robert.altnoeder at linbit.com>; drbd-
> user at lists.linbit.com
> Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Discarding device blocks very slow
> 
> For what it's worth:
> 
> 1. Discard is enabled and working on both nodes.
> 2. No messages about trim or discard in the logs.
> 3. Network latency is sub-1 millisecond, bandwidth is 1 Gbit (utilization about
> 10%).
> 4. Drbd is version 9.0.8 on both nodes.
> 
> --
> Eric Robinson
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-
> > bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Robert Altnoeder
> > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 2:17 AM
> > To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
> > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Discarding device blocks very slow
> >
> > On 07/31/2017 10:46 AM, Eric Robinson wrote:
> > > But that still does not explain why discards across the network are so
> slow.
> >
> > There are lots of possible reasons.
> > Discard might not be enabled on both nodes, there should be a message
> > about discard being available or unavailable in the logs. IIRC, if it
> > can't discard, it will zero-out.
> > The network may have too high latency or too low bandwidth.
> > Without a great amount of detailed information all one can do about
> > performance-related issues is to guess.
> >
> > Generally, both nodes should be running the same and most recent
> > version of DRBD 9, because all those features have been added quite
> > recently, and lots of enhancements and fixes are still applied to the code.
> >
> > --
> > Robert Altnoeder
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> > robert.altnoeder at linbit.com
> >
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