[DRBD-user] Protocol A Pending

Andreas Kurz andreas at hastexo.com
Mon Jun 25 15:31:48 CEST 2012

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On 06/22/2012 09:38 PM, J.R. Lillard wrote:
> 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

You also increased al-extents for the lower-level DRBD device of your
stacked resource?

Regards,
Andreas

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