Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
/ 2004-06-25 13:44:01 +0800 \ Paul Chen: > Hi all, > > I am new to drb so I am not sure if the result I'm getting is really > what it suppose to be. I have set up 2 identical systems using a > customized redhat7.2, A and B. The only difference is that A has a > 10gb hd and B has a 6gb hd. Redhat is installed on another hd. The > thing that I was un-sure of is that when I started drbd in both > system, the whole sync process took about 2 hr. Is it normal to take > that long to sync a 5gb hd? > speed is about 700~1000k/sec. > > CPU: 300 mhz > RAM: 128 MB well, your hardware seems to be kind of old. what performance do you get from typical simple benchmarks? did you enable DMA for your disk(s) ? test disk performance: hdparm -T -t /dev/hde bonnie++ tiobench test net performance: ping bing scp large_file other_box: netcat what does "top" or "vmstat 1" say while the sync is running, cpu usage? > I'm using drbd 0.6.11 > below is my conf file you should use 0.6.12 .11 was a quick fix for some problem with prior versions, but introduced an other bug. 0.6.12 was the fix for the fix, about one week later... or use 0.6.12+cvs, see drbd.org. Lars Ellenberg