[DRBD-user] Re: DRBD and Postgres: how to improve the perfomance

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Aug 24 21:13:37 CEST 2007

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


On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 06:18:29AM -0700, Maila wrote:
> 
> Hello.

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> We have made some performance tests with DRBD and Postgresql 8.2.3. We have
> two identical servers in a cluster (Dell 2950) with a partition of 100 GB
> managed by DRBD: once we checked Postgres keeping his data folder in a local
> partition, the second time we moved the data folder in the shared partition.
> The partition is mounted with the option noatime in order to not update the
> inode access time in case of read access.
> We used pgbench for the testings, creating a dabase of about 3GB with a
> scale of 200. After we perfomed 10 tests for each configuration, simulating
> the usage of 100 clients with 500 transactions each.

please first tune for "sequential write",
before you try to tune for any particular application.

there is a very short section about drbd performance tuning in
http://www.drbd.org/fileadmin/drbd/publications/drbd8.linux-conf.eu.2007.pdf

if that does not help, subscribe, post again,
and do not forget to tell us about
network characteristics, especially latency,
e.g. do some flood pings with different packet sizes.

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