[DRBD-user] Doc update and Sync performance

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Mon Jan 4 20:05:52 CET 2010

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


On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:10:42AM -0700, Josh Aune wrote:
> 
> On Jan 4, 2010, at 4:47 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 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?
> >> 
> >> Yes, 87% cpu idle.  Nothing much really happening.
> > 
> > Then this seems to be some other config problem.
> > 
> > 	<shameless plug>
> > Did you know we sell "DRBD Health Checks"?
> > http://www.linbit.com/en/products-services/drbd-consulting/
> > 	</shameless plug>
> 
> To be clear, you have seen checksum based sync speeds in excess of 100 MB/s

absolutely.

> and I have a problem with my environment?

most likely.

though enabling checksum based resync does not make too much sense 
if network bandwidth is not your bottleneck.


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