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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are still mixing megabits and megabytes. Your 1000 megabit pipe won’t take a 600 megabyte stream, or a 150 megabyte stream. The maximum is about 125 MBps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>DRBD talks (and is documented to talk) bytes. Most everyone else talks bits.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You don’t mention the speed you are getting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also, if you have 3 resources syncing, each will try for the syncer limit. So, to use 50% of your capacity to sync 3 resources, you’d specify the rate as 21M. Note: you can change the rate on the fly, during a sync.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dan <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> drbd-user-bounces@lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-bounces@lists.linbit.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Baer<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 05, 2011 8:51 AM<br><b>To:</b> Caspar Smit<br><b>Cc:</b> drbd-user@lists.linbit.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DRBD-user] DRBD won't take 1G syncer rate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>I was playing with the settings yesterday and it let me set it at 600M and it didn't make a difference in the sync speed at all. I then tried it with your suggestion, dropped it to 150M just to be safe. Still no difference. I wonder what the deal is. Could it be that this is the initial sync?<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Aug 5, 2011 1:29 AM, "Caspar Smit" <<a href="mailto:c.smit@truebit.nl" target="_blank">c.smit@truebit.nl</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi Matt,<br>> <br>> 1000M means 1000 Mb/s NOT 1000mbps. To reach 1000M you should have at least<br>> one (probably two) 10gbit interface(s). Since you have two 1gbit interfaces<br>> (bonded with balance-rr?) a value between 100M and around 170M would be more<br>> appropiate.<br>> <br>> Kind regards,<br>> Caspar<br>> Op 5 aug. 2011 08:21 schreef "Matt Baer" <<a href="mailto:mbaer@lrnet1.com" target="_blank">mbaer@lrnet1.com</a>> het volgende:<br>>> When setting the syncer rate in drbd.conf to 1G, it won't start, citing<br>> that<br>>> 1G is invalid. Get the same thing with 1000M. Any clue as to why? It<br>>> explicitly states that <<a href="mailto:mbaer@lrnet1.com" target="_blank">mbaer@lrnet1.com</a>>1G is acceptable in the docs.<br>> I've<br>>> triple checked and both interfaces are auto-negotiated at 1000mbps full<br>>> duplex.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>