[DRBD-user] Write performance tuning of protocol C

J. Ryan Earl oss at jryanearl.us
Thu Jan 6 15:50:47 CET 2011

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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at voltaire.com> wrote:

>  On 1/4/2011 2:46 AM, Sean McCreadie wrote:
>
>  I have tested write performance using fio and right now the best I can
> get is write throughput and IOPS that are about 50-75% as good as with drbd
> replication disabled.
>
>
> Were you able to get closer to the throughput in non-replicated
> configuration when using protocol A instead of C? Using very much the same
> params as in your configuration, I see that protocol A buys me better
> latency but not any further bandwidth.
>
> I'm on 500 MB/s for replicating one drbd lun, 1GB/s for two and the same
> for three. My underline interconnect is Infiniband/DDR whose bandwidth is
> 1900MB/s. These disks can yield 1600 MBs for drbd read test or write test
> when the connection is off. So I'm also hitting some unknown (yet, to me)
> bottleneck...
>

Have you checked CPU usage?  Look at all your processors, one of them may be
maxxed.  I've noticed the DRBD threads tend to all run on a single core.

-JR
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