[DRBD-user] DRBD performance over GBit Ethernet

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Apr 7 15:04:05 CEST 2004

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/ 2004-04-07 14:47:54 +0200
\ Andreas Semt:
> >>And: What maximum performance i can expect with such a hardware
> >>configuration (production use experience anybody)?
> >
> >You could easily see >80MB/s. This will to a large degree depend on your
> >physical disks.
> >
> 
> Not with my configuration :-(
> i only get:
> 
> --- snip ---
> testnode1:~# cat /proc/drbd
> version: 0.6.12 (api:64/proto:62)
> 
> 0: cs:SyncingAll st:Primary/Secondary ns:1235920 nr:0 dw:0 dr:1236060 
> pe:881 ua:0
>         [>...................] sync'ed:  0.3% (96043/96256)M
>         finish: 3:47:11h speed: 7,245 (7,245) K/sec
> --- snap ---


> What can cause this slowly drbd performance? Any suggestions? I've used 
> NetIO to get a feeling for the GBit Ethernet fitness and this brought up 
> a rate (with TCP/IP) of around 100 MByte/sec. So the network works fine, 
> i think.

so then, it is not the network throughput.
maybe disk throughput, or the combined latencies of local disk, network
and remote disk.

you have to "benchmark" each of them in turn...

	Lars Ellenberg



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