[DRBD-user] The need for Speed 2

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Mon Jan 17 10:49:35 CET 2005

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On 2005-01-14T11:53:41, Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner at linbit.com> wrote:

> > How much overhead goes into keeping the active log etc uptodate? Is the
> > performance disk IO-, network IO- or CPU-limitted?
> Ahhh, right. I had the AL at its default setting, so there were updates
> to the AL, because I wrote 3G in my tests...

Ah, I see.

> Now the "al:" value stays constant during a test....
> 
> 43.25 MB/sec (3221225472 B / 01:11.033546)
> 44.91 MB/sec (3221225472 B / 01:08.403583)
> 44.79 MB/sec (3221225472 B / 01:08.585322)
> 
> Raw write performance to the LVs:
> 59.69 MB/sec (3221225472 B / 00:51.468961)
> 60.54 MB/sec (3221225472 B / 00:50.743192)
> 60.71 MB/sec (3221225472 B / 00:50.603030)
> 
> So, when the working set stays constant, we now we reach 75% of the raw 
> LVs performance ... with these machines.

Hm. That's still a significant loss. Do you know where the speed is
lost?

I need to build new kernels today anyway, I can test on some lower-end
nodes today and see what happens.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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