[DRBD-user] Syncer aborted. Connection lost.

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Tue Mar 23 10:28:35 CET 2004

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/ 2004-03-23 11:49:14 +0300
\ Eugene Crosser:
> Please could someone knowledgeble tell me why this may happen?
> Under load (local massive quota update by a script plus cpio of a big
> tree from an NFS client) synchronization is repeatedly restarted after
> ~1% completion:
> 
> Mar 23 11:21:11 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection established. size=214291003 KB / blksize=4096 B
> Mar 23 11:21:11 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Synchronisation started blks=15
> Mar 23 11:22:58 nfsa2.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection lost.
> Mar 23 11:22:59 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Syncer aborted.
> Mar 23 11:22:59 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection lost.
> Mar 23 11:22:59 nfsa2.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection established. size=214291003 KB / blksize=4096 B
> Mar 23 11:22:59 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection established. size=214291003 KB / blksize=4096 B
> Mar 23 11:22:59 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Synchronisation started blks=15
> Mar 23 11:23:50 nfsa2.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection lost.
> Mar 23 11:23:57 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Syncer aborted.
> Mar 23 11:23:57 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection lost.
> Mar 23 11:23:57 nfsa2.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection established. size=214291003 KB / blksize=4096 B
> Mar 23 11:23:57 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection established. size=214291003 KB / blksize=4096 B
> Mar 23 11:23:57 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Synchronisation started blks=15
> Mar 23 11:24:54 nfsa2.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection lost.
> Mar 23 11:25:02 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Syncer aborted.
> Mar 23 11:25:02 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: Connection lost.
> 
> Am I right in assumption that when load average is high on the master,
> and "application" write speed is higher than sync-min, syncer running at
> low priority cannot keep pace and disconnects?

No. Syncer never disconnects. DRBD notices that its "DrbdPing"
packets are no longer answered in time, and disconnects/reconnects.
Unfortunately a disrupted SyncAll still is always restarted
from the very beginning.

> Also, I was getting significant number of messages like these:
> 
> Mar 22 16:29:27 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: [kjournald/819] sock_sendmsg timeout count down: ko=4294967295
> Mar 22 16:34:37 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: pending_cnt <0 !!!
> Mar 22 16:44:02 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: [kjournald/819] sock_sendmsg timeout count down: ko=4294967295
> Mar 22 16:58:34 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: [kjournald/819] sock_sendmsg timeout count down: ko=4294967295
> Mar 22 17:08:26 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: [kjournald/819] sock_sendmsg timeout count down: ko=4294967295
> ...
> Mar 22 19:35:09 nfsa1.mail.back kernel: drbd0: [drbd_syncer_0/6603] sock_sendmsg timeout count down: ko=4294967295
> 
> What do they mean?
> The kernel is 2.4.25 (smp, on Xeon), drbd 0.6.10-cvs (now trying
> 0.6.12).

0.6.12 should help for some weird behaviour related to the above problem.
Whether it fixes the actual problem I cannot say. Please report back.

	Lars Ellenberg



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