Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, You have to realize how many abstraction layers you have going on there. It goes something like this, disk, software RAID on top of disk, LVM physical volumes on top of software RAID, volume group on top of physical volume, logical volume on top of volume group, DRBD on top of logical volume. Does it sound like a lot? Because it is, and this is just one node, now put into play the secondary node and a network connection to get your traffic there and then go back the chain down to the disk for a write. I'm surprised you got up to 80MB/s, but then again, the CPU is compensating for a lot here. On-point, what protocol are you using for the setup? For instance, if you're using protocol C, then it has to wait for a lot of things to happen for the write operation to be committed, it is the safest protocol, but also the slowest, from what I know. Changing the protocol _might_ help, but the main thing is the layer overload you got going on there. And to add to that, what happens when a process requires CPU time? What about 100 processes? Regards, Dan trekker.dk at abclinuxu.cz wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use DRBD as storage for virtualised guests. DRBD is > created on top of LVM partition, all LVM partitions reside on single > software RAID1 array (2 disks) > > In this setup the DRBD is supposed to operate in standalone mode most > of the time, network connections will only come into play when > migrating a guest to another host (That's why I can't use RAID - DRBD > - LVM - there can be more than 2 hosts and guests need to be able to > migrate anywhere.) > > So I did very simple benchmark, created an LVM partition and tried to > write into it and then read the data: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/obrazy2-pokus \ > bs=$((1024**2)) count=16384 > # dd if=/dev/mapper/obrazy2-pokus of=/dev/null \ > bs=$((1024**2)) count=16384 > > Both tests yielded about 80MB/s throughput. > > Then I created a DRBD on top of that LVM and retried the test: > > # /sbin/drbdmeta 248 v08 /dev/mapper/obrazy2-pokus internal create-md > # drbdsetup 0 disk \ > /dev/mapper/obrazy2-pokus /dev/mapper/obrazy2-pokus \ > internal --set-defaults --create-device > # drbdsetup 0 primary -o > > Reading performace was the same, but writes dropped to about 35MB/s, > with flushes disabled (drbdsetup ... -a -i -D -m) about 45MB/s. > > I'd understand that, if the device was connected over network, but in > standalone mode I was expecting DRBD to have roughly the same > performance as underlying storage. > > My question: is that drop in write throughput normal or could there be > some error in my setup, which is causing it? > > System setup is: Debian, kernel 2.6.34 from kernel.org, drbd-utils > 8.3.7. Also tested on kernel 2.6.35.4 from kernel.org. > > Regards, > J.B. > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user -- Dan FRINCU Systems Engineer CCNA, RHCE Streamwide Romania -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20100910/3c3fe1c5/attachment.htm>