Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi Lars,
What are you using to interconnect the two DRBD systems? Loss of half of performance seems excessive. I usually get about 95% of the arrays sustained write performance and multiple arrays can synch at once without penalty.
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Tomasz Chmielewski
Sent: 19 January 2009 09:54
To: Lars Täuber
Cc: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] slow sync speed of 12TB over 10GE
Lars Täuber schrieb:
> 6553600000 bytes (6.6 GB) copied, 25.4397 s, 258 MB/s
> md4 72164,00 0,00 288656,00 0 288656
>
> The numbers are floating between ~18900 and ~23400.
>
> Should I really mount the device with a filesystem on it? The last tests were made without a filesystem too.
Linear writes to a raw device are different to writes to a filesystem
because:
- you don't have to update metadata, journal etc., so you can write faster
- raw device can not be fragmented, where a filesystem can (heads in
your HDD won't jump here and there)
Technically speaking, such writes:
[==============>.....] sync'ed: 76.4% (242356/1023804)K
finish: 0:00:01 speed: 130,240 (130,240) K/sec
can be also fragmented as well - some area can be out of sync here, some
area there - the head will jump.
Also, note that at the same time there can be real writes to that device
(i.e., something writes to your /dev/drbdXY device) - it will impact the
speed of that sync because those writes have to be synchronized as well;
also HDD head will jump more often.
It's hard to tell if such difference (258 MB/s dd write speed versus 130
MB/s DRBD sync) can be explained by only those items I mentioned.
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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