Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
That's reassuring! I haven't set the syncer rate at all. I followed the draft manual advice at www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-configure-resource.html, so my drbd.conf has no more in it that your "Example configuration" there. Maybe that's not a very useful example? The sequence in the manual goes through doing the initial sync at www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-initial-full-sync.html without any reference to setting the syncer rate. It might improve the manual to advise reference to www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-configure-syncer-rate.html before starting the initial sync - or else have DRBD run with a more realistic default syncer rate when its not specified. Some people read a whole manual closely before doing anything. Others of us assume that for a simple setup, following the steps as they're given should produce a usable first approximation. Since the manual's a draft, hopefully it can still be made better for the second sort of user. I'll reset the syncer rate. Thanks. Best, Whit On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:30:15PM +0100, Stefan Seifert wrote: > On Wednesday, 12. March 2008, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > > > Here's an additional question the manual might answer: Are the subsequent > > operations as slow as the initial sync? Or do they runs at something closer > > to normal file transfer speed? In our case what I'm trying to test it for > > is a 60 gig partition. It's been running the initial sync for a day, and > > looks to have another day to go. > > That's completely out of the ordinary. DRBD sync should be more like raw disk > throughput (50MB/s in our case). Are you sure, you set the syncer rate > in /etc/drbd.conf to something reasonable like "rate 100M;"? If yes, there's > something fishy going on and standard infos, like hard- and software > configuration may needed to find out, what's wrong. > > Regards, > Stefan Seifert > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user