[DRBD-user] Protocol A Pending

J.R. Lillard jlillard at ghfllc.com
Fri Jun 22 21:38:07 CEST 2012

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Witnessed another bandwidth spike that slowed my stacked layer down.

10: cs:Connected ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate A r-----
    ns:192538032 nr:0 dw:599650316 dr:1701817080 al:4481613 bm:43214 lo:1
pe:2050 ua:0 ap:2049 ep:1 wo:f oos:0
        resync: used:0/61 hits:3274 misses:165 starving:0 dirty:0
changed:165
        act_log: used:135/3833 hits:788561 misses:25007 starving:0 dirty:28
changed:24979

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM, J.R. Lillard <jlillard at ghfllc.com> wrote:

> My starving count was pretty high.  I maxed out my al-extents and will see
> if that helps.  Thanks.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Andreas Kurz <andreas at hastexo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/20/2012 11:51 PM, J.R. Lillard wrote:
>> > I have a lower-level setup on Protocol C and a stacked layer of Protocol
>> > A going through Proxy over a WAN.  There are times when my disk activity
>> > spikes causing the Proxy buffers to fill up a bit.  While this is
>> > happening the Pending count on my stacked resources goes up and causes
>> > my access to those resources to slow down.  Is this normal?  I thought
>> > with Protocol A as soon as my local write was finished things would
>> > continue.
>>
>> You checked that you are not running out of activity log extents for the
>> stacked resource?
>>
>> Do an: echo 1 >/sys/module/drbd/parameters/proc_details
>>
>> ... and have a look at "starving" counter in /proc/drbd ... should
>> ideally be 0 and definitely not increasing regularly. If it does,
>> increase the al-extents value for the stacked resource (max is 3833 in
>> drbd 8.3 ... IIRC)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andreas
>>
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J.R. Lillard
System / Network Admin
Web Programmer
Golden Heritage Foods
120 Santa Fe St.
Hillsboro, KS  67063
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