> On 11/02/14 10:31 AM, Joeri Casteels wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/02/14 03:42 AM, Joeri Casteels wrote:
>>>> I can cranck up the initial sync to 750MB/s when playing with the c-rate’s 
>>>> (still not a good performance) while after the initial sync it drops back 
>>>> to 400MB/s
>>> 
>>> Initial sync is not reflective of real-world performance. In fact, it's 
>>> kept low on purpose.
>>> 
>>> If your DRBD resource (slowest of the network or drives) is, say, 1.1 
>>> GB/sec, then that is your _replication_ speed. When both nodes are 
>>> UpToDate, your applications using the DRBD resource will work at this speed.
>>> 
>>> Synchronization speed is the speed at which out of sync blocks are copied 
>>> to the peer. So say, for example, your nodes are UpToDate. Then you 
>>> disconnect node 2 for a couple of hours and during that time, 50 GB of data 
>>> changes on node 1. When node 2 returns, DRBD will start copying that 50 GBs 
>>> of changes will start to sync from node 1. This runs at the sync speed.
>>> 
>>> If this sync runs at 750 MB/sec, then your apps will feel like their 
>>> storage has slowed from 1,100 MB/sec down to just 350 MB/sec (1,1000 - 
>>> 750). This is rarely what people want, so the best option is to let the 
>>> sync operation take longer and let the application speed stay high. The 
>>> general rule of thumb is to set the sync rate no higher that 30% of the 
>>> tested maximum write speed. This is a good trade off between syncing 
>>> quickly without hurting replication performance too much.
>>> 
>>> Make sense?
>> 
>> Yes i know :-) that’s not my problem and after initial sync i do set it to 
>> max 30% of the real speed.
>> Initial sync i do without limitations. and then i get about 755MB/s
>> 
>>> 
>>> Please wait until both nodes are UpToDate and then run your 'dd' test by 
>>> writing directly to the /dev/drbdX device (or a file on it's FS, if you 
>>> formatted /dev/drbdX). The performance you get with this test will reflect 
>>> the performance your apps using DRBD should expect.
>> 
>> Here is where the problem is i only get 400MB/s and no more after the nodes 
>> are uptodate with oflag=direct
>> If i detach the secondary i’m back at 1.8GB/s with oflag=direct and 1.1GB/s 
>> with no flags.
>> 
>> I would expect that i get around 1+ G/s with oflag=direct and without around 
>> 900MB/s with drbd in-between.
> 
> Ok, in that case, the best I can offer is my raw notes from when I was doing 
> my DRBD tuning:
> 
> https://alteeve.ca/w/AN!Cluster_Tutorial_2_-_Performance_Tuning
> 
> Those really are raw notes, totally unstructured. However, it might help you 
> tune your system. I found tuning dramatically helped my performance, and the 
> ideal numbers (for me) were not at all like those in the tuning docs I read.
> 
Wow nice guide! Most of them i tested but see you have some settings i didn’t 
try before or not at such low values.
Will test and get back too you what my best config was. 

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