[DRBD-user] Doc update and Sync performance

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Wed Dec 30 11:27:42 CET 2009

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:56:17PM -0700, Josh Aune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Attached is a patch for the users guide.

Thanks.

> Also, I'm having an issue with sync performance.  I have DRBD setup
> between two hosts using SRP.

SDP maybe?

> Under optimal conditions I'm able to achieve a 500+ MB/s write speed,

How do you measure?

> but during the initial sync after the DRBD device is created the sync
> proceeds at less than 100 MB/s.  Below is the config file.  Am I
> missing anything needed to bump up the initial sync speed?
> 
> Also, all bytes on the drives on both side are zeros, so the limitation seems to be in the crc32c processing.

Did you look at top, vmstat or similar?

> Thanks,
> Josh
> 
> common {
>   protocol C;
>   disk {
>     no-disk-flushes;
>     no-md-flushes;
>   }
>   net {
>     allow-two-primaries;
>   }
>   syncer {
>     rate 800M;
>     csums-alg crc32c;
>     verify-alg crc32c;
>   }
>   startup {
>     become-primary-on both;
>   }
> }
> resource fioa {
>   on l1 {
>     address    sdp 192.168.0.1:7789;
>     device     /dev/drbd1;
>     disk       /dev/fioa;
>     meta-disk  internal;
>   }
>   on l2 {
>     address    sdp 192.168.0.2:7789;
>     device     /dev/drbd1;
>     disk       /dev/fioa;
>     meta-disk  internal;
>   }
> }
> 
> 
> 
> CONFIDENTIAL
>
> This document and attachments contain information from Fusion-io, Inc. which is confidential and/or legally privileged.

Oh, not really...  ;-)


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