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

Samuli Heinonen samppah at neutraali.net
Sat Jan 28 13:01:50 CET 2012

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On 27.01.2012 15:35, 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?

Variable-rate synchronization is on by default in DRBD 8.4. I had to 
set c-plan-head to 0 before I was able to change sync rate even 
temporarily. More information can be found at 
http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/s-recent-changes-defaults.html.

Btw, offtopic question just because curiosity, what SSD disks you are 
using in raid? :)

-samuli



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