[DRBD-user] drbd Performance

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Wed Jul 16 18:15:43 CEST 2008

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


On 2008-07-10T14:46:43, Stefan Novak <stefan.novak at bnet.at> wrote:

> Hello!
>  
> I test the I/O Performance using dm and bonnie. I am confused that the
> drbd Performance is only the half than directly on the /dev/sda device.
> For testing purposes I've only one single node because i want to test
> the I/O of the SCSI Controller, not of DRBD.

You're being hit by the internal metadata. Putting the metadata on
another spindle will make it quite fast.


Regards,
    Lars

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