[DRBD-user] Please help with slow Replication / Syncing on debian squeeze 6.0, 8-disk RAID6

Michael Schwartzkopff misch at schwartzkopff.org
Tue Mar 13 11:09:05 CET 2012

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 05:22:57PM +0100, Felix Frank wrote:
> > On 03/12/2012 05:13 PM, Jake Smith wrote:
> > > drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 syncer -r 110M
> > 
> > Good call.
> > 
> > > drbdadm adjust 0
> > 
> > Stressing this: Do the latter only *after* your test is done and you
> > want to rid yourself of the temporary adjustment.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Felix
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've tried changing the syncer rate as you mentioned in the previous
> post, but it hasn't changed the sync speed one bit (literally ;-).
> 
> It seems like I'm running out of options fast, the old hardware we're
> intending to replace does 44MB/sec write speed in similar setup, but
> on much inferior hardware, so I'm hoping to achieve at least the same
> speeds once we'll migrate to the new servers.
> 
> For the record:
> 
> # cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.3.7 (api:88/proto:86-91)
> srcversion: EE47D8BF18AC166BE219757
>  0: cs:SyncSource ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/Inconsistent C
>  r----
>     ns:873115000 nr:0 dw:2048 dr:873127461 al:1 bm:53289 lo:1 pe:3151
>     ua:1699 ap:0 ep:1 wo:d oos:2281801072
>     [====>...............] sync'ed: 25.6% (2228320/2992484)M
>     finish: 32:20:18 speed: 19,396 (12,256) K/sec

Could you please show the /proc/drbd BEFORE and AFTER the drbdsetup command?
Perhaps you switch the sync speed several times.

-- 
Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff
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