[DRBD-user] slow write performance (1/3rd of disk speed)

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Mon Oct 7 01:37:39 CEST 2013

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Hi,

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 18:54:12 +0200 Bram Matthys <syzop at vulnscan.org>
wrote:
> I'm currently testing DRBD and am having write performance problems.
> On the local raid array I achieve 124MB/s, but with DRBD I get only
> 41MB/s out of it, or if the secondary node is down (to rule out
> network issues) then 53MB/s at best.
> Tried protocol A / B / C, with and without no-disk-barriers and
> no-disk-flushes, but this didn't change much (only +/- 2MB/s
> difference).
<snip>

Yep, internal meta-disk: write block, seek to end, write log, seek to
front, write block, seek to end, write log...

Put the meta-disk on a different hd and watch your write rate go up.

- Arnold
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