[DRBD-user] MySQL-over-DRBD Performance

Art Age Software artagesw at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 04:09:06 CET 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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Hardware RAID-10. There is no problem with the disks. We have measured
raw I/O performance through the RAID on both nodes.

On Dec 19, 2007 6:16 PM, Matteo Tescione <matteo at rmnet.it> wrote:
> Sorry if already asked, but are you using hardware raid or software raid? If
> so, is it raid 5/6 ? I discovered an huge hole in performance like your
> reports using that kind of setup. Search in the list for previous posts
> about performance solved.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> #Matteo Tescione
> #RMnet srl
>
> Il 20-12-2007 1:41, "Art Age Software" <artagesw at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>
> > I have run some additional tests:
> >
> > 1) Disabled bonding on the network interfaces (both nodes). No
> > significant change.
> >
> > 2) Changed the DRBD communication interface. Was using a direct
> > crossover connection between the on-board NICs of the servers. I
> > switched to Intel Gigabit NIC cards in both machines, connecting
> > through a Gigabit switch. No significant change.
> >
> > 3) Ran a file copy from node1 to node2 via scp. Even with the
> > additional overhead of scp, I get a solid 65 MB/sec. throughput.
> >
> > So, at this stage I have seemingly ruled out:
> >
> > 1) Slow IO subsystem (both machines measured and check out fine).
> >
> > 2) Bonding driver (additional latency)
> >
> > 3) On-board  NICs (hardware/firmware problem)
> >
> > 4) Network copy speed.
> >
> > What's left?  I'm stumped as to why DRBD can only do about 3.5 BM/sec.
> > on this very fast hardware.
> >
> > Sam
>
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