[DRBD-user] slow write performance

rahulcs singh.rahul.1983 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 17:06:19 CEST 2012

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Thanks for your suggestions.

I think the problem has something to do with the fact that i am using
loopback device with DRBD. The problem disappears when i use a separate
partition with DRBD.


dbarker wrote:
> 
> a) use oflag=direct or dd will just test caching.
> b) You show a 183MB/s rate, which is pretty good. However, the target
> appears not to be the drbd volume, you don't say if the resource is
> connected or waiting for connection, and you don't describe the underlying
> hardware.
> c) How is /mnt/mysql/syncing_drbd related to opt/drbd-test.loop or
> /dev/drdb1?
> 
> Dan (the top poster)
> 
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> Subject: [DRBD-user] slow write performance
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I am using DRBD for syncing files between two machines on a LAN. I have
> created a device on a file using dd if=/dev/zero of=/opt/drbd-test.loop
> bs=1M count=200
> losetup /dev/loop1 /opt/drbd-test.loop.
> 
> My drbd resource settings are as follows:
> root at obelix101:/tmp# drbdsetup 1 show
> disk {
>         size                    0s _is_default; # bytes
>         on-io-error             pass_on _is_default;
>         fencing                 dont-care _is_default;
>         max-bio-bvecs           0 _is_default;
> }
> net {
>         timeout                 60 _is_default; # 1/10 seconds
>         max-epoch-size          8000;
>         max-buffers             8000;
>         unplug-watermark        16;
>         connect-int             10 _is_default; # seconds
>         ping-int                10 _is_default; # seconds
>         sndbuf-size             0 _is_default; # bytes
>         rcvbuf-size             0 _is_default; # bytes
>         ko-count                0 _is_default;
>         after-sb-0pri           disconnect _is_default;
>         after-sb-1pri           disconnect _is_default;
>         after-sb-2pri           disconnect _is_default;
>         rr-conflict             disconnect _is_default;
>         ping-timeout            5 _is_default; # 1/10 seconds
>         on-congestion           block _is_default;
>         congestion-fill         0s _is_default; # byte
>         congestion-extents      127 _is_default;
> }
> syncer {
>         rate                    1024000k; # bytes/second
>         after                   -1 _is_default;
>         al-extents              3389;
>         on-no-data-accessible   io-error _is_default;
>         c-plan-ahead            0 _is_default; # 1/10 seconds
>         c-delay-target          10 _is_default; # 1/10 seconds
>         c-fill-target           0s _is_default; # bytes
>         c-max-rate              102400k _is_default; # bytes/second
>         c-min-rate              4096k _is_default; # bytes/second
> }
> protocol C;
> _this_host {
>         device                  minor 1;
>         disk                    "/dev/loop1";
>         meta-disk               internal;
>         address                 ipv4 192.168.245.101:7789;
> }
> _remote_host {
>         address                 ipv4 192.168.245.102:7789;
> }
> 
> I am getting really bad write performance:
> 
> root at obelix101:/tmp# time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/mysql/syncing_drbd bs=1M
> count=12
> 12+0 records in
> 12+0 records out
> 12582912 bytes (13 MB) copied, 0.0686793 s, 183 MB/s
> 
> real    3m49.773s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.168s
> 
> What am i doing wrong ?
> 
> Thanking you,
> Rahul 
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