[DRBD-user] State 'stalled'

Ben Clewett ben at roadrunner.uk.com
Tue May 15 14:46:44 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.


Lars,

Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:37:54PM +0100, Ben Clewett wrote:
>> The kernel is 2.6.16.13-4. (SUSE)
>>
>> I don't know what sort of io subsystem.  I have 2x 10MBit/s NICs, one 
>> dedicated for DRBD.  In order to test I have throttled the bandwidth at 
>> some value way larger than the speed of the card.
> 
> so you have not throttled it, but you request a much higher sync rate
> than your hardware can handle. don't do that.

There is good reason.  Our production servers will be linked by fibre. 
On error, like physical damage to a fibre or terminator, these have a 
habit of jumping down the Ethernet protocol a couple of stops.  So a 
1000baseF might become a 10baseF.  The upshot is that I need to test 
with this sync rate set much higher than my NIC's.

I have now given this a value 1/10 of the ability of the NIC.  But this 
has not helped.  Under protocol B they still jump to 'stalled' when I 
write data under a resync operation.

Ben


>> I have included the output from 'hwinfo' if this is any help...
> 
> no.


If there is anything else I can check, let me know.  I'll even attempt a 
patch if you have any ideas.

Ben





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