[DRBD-user] MySQL performance breakdown during resync to secondary node

Jakob Curdes jc at info-systems.de
Tue Mar 27 11:19:14 CEST 2012

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Hi, we are running a primary/secondary cluster which hosts a zarafa 
database (among other things). The hardware and network (dedicated dual 
bonded GBit) should be fast enough and in fact, when the machines are in 
sync we have no performance problems whatsoever. However, when we need 
to resync the volumes, the read (!) performance of the MySQL database 
(all innodb) drops drastically. As this happens only on resync, I wonder 
where this behavior might come from. We already reduced the syncer rate 
to absurd values (like 100 kB/s) and still get high IOWaits on the 
primary as soon as the syncing starts. At 100kbit/s I think I can rule 
out the disks as bottleneck or am I wrong there?

Cheers Jakob





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