[DRBD-user] DRBD troubleshooting

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Thu Feb 26 20:09:06 CET 2009

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


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:03:48PM +0100, ewen fortune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction for
> trouble shooting IO issues.
> 
> Basically I was looking at a box with IO wait reflected in vmstat,
> iostat shows the underlying devices are not saturated or experiencing
> high wait or service times.
> 
> I am guessing that I can verify DRBD health by looking at the values
> from /proc/drbd.
> 
> pe (pending). Number of requests sent to the partner, but that have
> not yet been answered by the latter.
> #
> 
> ua (unacknowledged). Number of requests received by the partner via
> the network connection, but that have not yet been answered.
> #
> 
> ap (application pending). Number of block I/O requests forwarded to
> DRBD, but not yet answered by DRBD
> 
> These look pretty interesting, am I on the right track?.

yes, go ahead.

btw, with kernels >= 2.6.16
(and, with current drbd git also for >= 2.6.28)
iostat should also work for DRBD.

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