[DRBD-user] Userspace- vs. Kernelspaceversions

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Wed Nov 30 20:57:53 CET 2011

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Hi again,

public thanks to Andreas Kurz, who answered and helped in private (altough 
only writing one email:).

According to his recommendation I updated both nodes to 8.3.12. That alone 
didn't fix the performance problem. But setting "al-extents 3389;" (and getting 
the parameter correctly) seems to fix the problem.

Gotta see if it proves itself tomorrow when my colleagues want to do their 
daily share of work.

Have a good night,

Arnold

On Wednesday 30 November 2011 17:03:21 Arnold Krille wrote:
> I am a bit stumped currently. Our drbd setup seems to include "extra low
> performance" as a feature and I don't exactly know where the reason is.
> On thing the bothers bothers us is that the versions of the userspace tools
> and the kernel module differ (drbd8-utils v8.3.7 vs module v8.3.9).
> The newer kernel-module is a side-effect of the kernel from debian squeeze
> backports needed for the new network-cards. But the versions installed on
> both nodes are the same.
> Using latency- and throughput tests from the drbd documentation, the
> latency rises by a factor of ten and the throughput sinks by a factor of
> ~5 from the baccking devices to the drbd device.
> So here are my questions:
>  - Could the mixed version be the reason for the performance penalty?
>  - Would it be save to downgrade the kernel (and compile the network-driver
> by hand) or is the meta-data on the disk incompatible?
>  - Or would you rather update the userspace tools to match the modules
> version?
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