[Bug 288226] [NEW] DRBD 8.0.11 is unusably slow

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Fri Apr 23 18:50:48 UTC 2010


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I'm using DRBD as a backend for postgre in a two node HA setup and I'm 
experiencing severe slowdowns. An analysis follows below. All results 
have been obtained with linuxHA being off and nothing resource 
intensive running on the servers. I have executed each benchmark 
several times (at least 3 times each) to make sure I'm not falling prey 
to statistic outliers.

Upgrading to 8.0.13 (I rebuilt the ubuntu package with the new upstream
sources) and setting the no-disk-flushes and no-md-flushes solved the
problem. The write speed for 1000 512byte chunks is running at about
3.3MB/s. The 8.0.11 version does not support those options, which leaves
people with server hardware (a battery backed write cache is REQUIRED to
enable these options) with an unusably slow DRBD setup. The upgrade to
8.0.13 is very easy and it is a bugfix only release.

Please note the following two performance figures below:
Speed for: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=512
Disconnected: 3.5 MB/s
Connected: 3.5 kB/s

= Network latency =
asterix02 at asterix02:/usr/lib/lmbench/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu$ ./lat_tcp 
192.168.1.1
TCP latency using 192.168.1.1: 0.2479 microseconds

asterix01 at asterix01:/usr/lib/lmbench/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu$ ./lat_tcp 
192.168.1.2
TCP latency using 192.168.1.2: 0.2463 microseconds

= Network throughput =
asterix01 at asterix01:/usr/lib/lmbench/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu$ iperf -f 
M -c 192.168.1.2
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.2, TCP port 5001
TCP window size: 0.02 MByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[  3] local 192.168.1.1 port 39381 connected with 192.168.1.2 port 5001
[  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  1116 MBytes    112 MBytes/sec

= Local disk (IBM Serveraid RAID 1) =
asterix01 at asterix01:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda6 bs=1G count=1 
oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.97766 s, 108 MB/s

asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda6 bs=1G count=1 
oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.84385 s, 109 MB/s

asterix01 at asterix01:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda6 bs=512 
count=1000 oflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 0.136389 s, 3.8 MB/s

asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda6 bs=512 
count=1000 oflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 0.140179 s, 3.7 MB/s

= DRBD default configuration =
asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo drbdsetup /dev/drbd0 show
disk {
        size                    0s _is_default; # bytes
        on-io-error             detach;
        fencing                 dont-care _is_default;
}
syncer {
        rate                    33792k; # bytes/second
        after                   -1 _is_default;
        al-extents              127 _is_default;
}
_this_host {
        device                  "/dev/drbd0";
        disk                    "/dev/sda5";
        meta-disk               internal;
}

== Disconnected DRBD ==
asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=1G count=1 
oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 43.7656 s, 24.5 MB/s

asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=512 
count=1000 oflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 0.14615 s, 3.5 MB/s

== Connected DRBD (no resync happening) ==
asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=1G count=1 
oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 53.9678 s, 19.9 MB/s

asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=512 
count=1000 oflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 144.54 s, 3.5 kB/s

= Optimised DRBD =
disk {
        size                    0s _is_default; # bytes
        on-io-error             detach;
        fencing                 dont-care _is_default;
}
net {
        timeout                 20; # 1/10 seconds
        max-epoch-size          2048 _is_default;
        max-buffers             8192;
        unplug-watermark        8192;
        connect-int             10 _is_default; # seconds
        ping-int                1; # seconds
        sndbuf-size             131070 _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
}
syncer {
        rate                    33792k; # bytes/second
        after                   -1 _is_default;
        al-extents              2129;
}
protocol C;
_this_host {
        device                  "/dev/drbd0";
        disk                    "/dev/sda5";
        meta-disk               internal;
        address                 192.168.1.2:7788;
}
_remote_host {
        address                 192.168.1.1:7788;
}

asterix02 at asterix02:/$ cat /proc/drbd
version: 8.0.11 (api:86/proto:86)
GIT-hash: b3fe2bdfd3b9f7c2f923186883eb9e2a0d3a5b1b build by phil at mescal, 
2008-02-12 11:56:43
 0: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r---
    ns:1048576 nr:0 dw:32129175 dr:66621614 al:2934 bm:578 lo:0 pe:0 
ua:0 ap:0
        resync: used:0/31 hits:196447 misses:193 starving:0 dirty:0 
changed:193
        act_log: used:0/2129 hits:218622 misses:256 starving:0 dirty:0 
changed:256

== Disconnected DRBD ==
asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=1G count=1 
oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 8.48373 s, 127 MB/s

asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=512 
count=1000 oflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 0.145206 s, 3.5 MB/s

== Connected DRBD (no resync happening) ==
asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=1G count=1 
oflag=direct
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 20.0519 s, 53.5 MB/s

asterix02 at asterix02:/$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/drbd0 bs=512 
count=1000 oflag=direct
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
512000 bytes (512 kB) copied, 144.431 s, 3.5 kB/s

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Hardy)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: In Progress

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DRBD 8.0.11 is unusably slow
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/288226
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