[DRBD-user] 99% IO usage with drbd/gfs2

Christoffer Andersson christoffer112 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 16:04:54 CEST 2010

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


  I'm not using RAID, it's a single disk setup.


On 2010-09-28 15:46, Lee Riemer wrote:
> What RAID backend are you using?  If it's RAID 5, then I would search 
> the web on how to lower iowait for that card.
>
> The 3ware (LSI) 9550SX card is notorious for high IOWAIT when using 
> RAID 5.
>
> On 9/27/2010 2:37 PM, Christoffer Andersson wrote:
>> I have big problems with high IO; gfs2_logd and pdflush uses 99% IO 
>> every 2 minutes, and this makes everything freeze for ~15 seconds.
>> Both servers are in the same hall and connected via 100Mbit.
>>
>> I'm attaching a screenshot of 'iotop' and my drbd.conf
>>
>> Anybody got ideas what might be wrong?
>>
>> Best regards
>> Christoffer
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> drbd-user mailing list
>> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
>> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> drbd-user mailing list
> drbd-user at lists.linbit.com
> http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/attachments/20100928/be9c9bc5/attachment.htm>


More information about the drbd-user mailing list