[DRBD-user] sync rate seems low

Clive Eisen clive at serendipita.com
Tue Aug 8 23:28:41 CEST 2006

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Monty Taylor wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm rolling out a DRBD at the moment and I'm getting much lower
> initial sync rate than I would expect. I have the two machines
> connected with crossover cables and the rate set at 125M, but I'm only
> seeing 8M/sec of transfer rate.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something stupid, but I've rolled DRBD out
> several times over the past couple of months and never had this
> problem. Anybody have an idea of something I can check?

Apart from the blindingly obvious - have you tried scp across the drbd
interfaces to check the rate - given that you are getting < 1/10 of what
you expect, have the links or the intermediate switch come up as 10
rather than 100MBit?



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