[DRBD-user] very poor DRBD performance - what to check?

Daniel Bourque dbourque at weatherdata.com
Fri Mar 20 15:44:54 CET 2009

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just checking,

1) have you tested the throughput of your dedicated link ( I'm assuming 
you have DRBD setup to do sync writes )
2) can you max out array throughput or link throughput ( whichever comes 
first ) by writing a large file to the drbd device ?

Daniel Bourque
Sr. Systems Engineer
WeatherData Service Inc
An Accuweather Company


Tobias Appel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed DRBD 8.0.14-23 on two RHEL5 machines for use with
> heartbeat, mysql, apache and so on.
> The two machines are Sun xfire4140 with two quadcore 2.3 ghz AMD
> opterons, 8 GB RAM each and are directly connected via two crossover
> cables on gigabit lan using interface bonding (so it should be like a 2
> gbit/s connection).
> DRBD sits on a hardware raid 1 of two SAS harddrives. The drbd partition
> is 75G in size.
>
> Now I have some trouble with my applications that use MySQL (which
> resides on the DRBD) being extremely slow.
>
> My output from iostat suggests that the DRBD partition is very slow:
>
> Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s   r/s   w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util
> sda               0.00    22.80  0.00 17.10     0.00   159.60    18.67     0.01    0.56   0.08   0.14
> drbd0             0.00     0.00  0.00 26.80     0.00   107.20     8.00     3.60  134.46  37.26  99.85
>
> The question now is where can I start looking for the issue of this? How can I tune performance?
> Are there any special options in the drbd.conf I should look out for?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tobi
>
> this is the output from /proc/drbd:
> version: 8.0.14 (api:86/proto:86)
> GIT-hash: bb447522fc9a87d0069b7e14f0234911ebdab0f7 build by bachbuilder@, 2008-12-19 22:49:51
>  0: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r---
>     ns:53981200 nr:1053428 dw:55034628 dr:154637 al:458 bm:208 lo:0 pe:2 ua:0 ap:1
> 	resync: used:0/61 hits:65688 misses:104 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:104
> 	act_log: used:1/257 hits:13494842 misses:464 starving:0 dirty:6 changed:458
>
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