[DRBD-user] drbd and 10Gb/s network how to increase syncer rate beyond 100MB/s?

Brian R. Hellman brian at linbit.com
Fri Jan 27 22:14:49 CET 2012

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On 01/27/2012 12:34 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 01/27/2012 08:35 AM, Maurits van de Lande wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a couple of servers with SSD based raid arrays (capable of
>> writing 550+MB/s to the disks). And a 10Gb/s network (HP NC552SFP
>> network adapter HP E8206 network switches)
>>
>> Before installing the 10Gb network adapter the syncrate was limited to
>> around 102MB/s (1Gb/s?)
>>
>> After Installing the 10Gb network adapter it was still impossible to get
>> more than 102MB/s sync rate between the servers.
>>
>> I would like to have a 300MB/s sync rate. When I set this as a fixed
>> sync rate in my drbd84 resource file I noticed that this value is
>> ignored and 102MB/s is used.
>>
>> How can I increase the syncer rate in drbd84?
> I have not played with 8.4 yet, but if it is the same as 8.3, you should
> be able to push up the sync rate to 300MB/sec using;
>
> drbdsetup /dev/drbdX syncer -r 300M
>
On 8.4 to temporarily increase the syncer rate you'd use:

 drbdadm disk-options --resync-rate=110M <resource>

Keep in mind that the rate is in MB/sec not Mb/sec.

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