Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Ben, you've probably "limited" your syncer rate to more than your effective storage subsystem bandwidth, which is counterproductive. http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-configure-syncer-rate.html Applies to online verify just as it does to background (re-)sync. Cheers, Florian On Tuesday 01 April 2008 16:46:16 Ben Clewett wrote: > Hi DRBD, > > I executed a verify on a live server without appreciating that the > combined load of the verify and MySql maxed out the server ability. The > result being that MySql executed queries in minutes rather than seconds. > My mistake, I should have benchmarked before hand: I gave my self a > dead server for nearly three hours. > > At least it found no bad blocks! > > 1. Is there a way of cancelling the verify when in progress? > > 2. Can I control the verify load? For instance to work slowly over > several days? > > Thanks, as always, for excellent tool and support. > > Ben -- : Florian G. Haas : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna, Austria When replying, there is no need to CC my personal address. I monitor the list on a daily basis. Thank you.