[DRBD-user] High iowait when other node is down

Francesco Ciocchetti francesco.ciocchetti at kyneste.com
Mon Oct 1 13:54:56 CEST 2007

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I'm experiencing a similar problem with 8.0.4 DRBD even if not so strong
as Mark wrote. My system are still usable but my iowait is around 90% on
a pseudo 400% cpu system (2 HT CPU that seems 4 to the system).

Is there anyway to resolve such an issue?

Mark Richardson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I experience problems when only one node is up:
> Only a few writes to the filesystem put the iowait up to 99% and the
> volume (lvm) becomes unresponsive.
>
> I've had the same problem when status is WFConnection and Standalone,
> this really defeats the purpose of replicating between two nodes if
> both of them need to be online, I think I am doing something wrong ?
>
> my system:
> Linux stan 2.6.22-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 13 21:06:48 CEST
> 2007 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> drbd version: Version: 8.0.5 (api:86)
>
> LVM version:     2.02.09 (2006-08-17)
> Library version: 1.02.19 (2007-04-27)
> Driver version:  4.11.0
>
> My config:
>
> resource mirror0 {
>   protocol A;
>   # tried protocol C and B as well normally used C but thought
>   # perhaps this would help
>   startup {
>   }
>   disk {
>     on-io-error   detach;
>     # tried pass_on as well
>   }
>   net {
>   }
>   syncer {
>     rate 100M;
>     al-extents 257;
>   }
>   on stan {
>     device     /dev/drbd0;
>     disk       /dev/vg0/lv1;
>     address    192.168.1.101:7788;
>     meta-disk  internal;
>   }
>   on game01 {
>     device    /dev/drbd0;
>     disk      /dev/vg0/lv1;
>     address   192.168.1.102:7788;
>     meta-disk internal;
>   }
> }
>
> This problem first became apparent when trying to setup an volume in
> stand-alone mode as the other node could not be rebooted atm I figured
> I could configure one node and get the other one involved at an
> appropriate time, further testing showed the problem with the existing
> mirror as well (seems logical).
>
> Sure hope I can resolve this issue as this only causes problems
> instead of preventing them.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
>
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