Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/12/2014 1:04 PM, Digimer wrote: If it's only 1 Gbps, then the maximum sustainable write speed is ~120 MB/sec (at most; the slower of network or disk determines the max speed). You want the sync rate to be ~30% of maximum speed, or else you will choke out the apps using the DRBD resource

Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/10/14 03:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/12/2014 12:30 PM, Digimer wrote: On 12/10/14 02:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/12/2014 9:30 AM, Digimer wrote: I can't speak to backuppc, but I am curious how you're managing the resources. Are you using cman + rgmanager or pacemaker? stric

Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/12/2014 12:30 PM, Digimer wrote: On 12/10/14 02:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/12/2014 9:30 AM, Digimer wrote: I can't speak to backuppc, but I am curious how you're managing the resources. Are you using cman + rgmanager or pacemaker? strictly manually, with drbdadm and such. if th

Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/10/14 02:52 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/12/2014 9:30 AM, Digimer wrote: I can't speak to backuppc, but I am curious how you're managing the resources. Are you using cman + rgmanager or pacemaker? strictly manually, with drbdadm and such. if the primary backup server ever fails, I'll

Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/12/2014 9:30 AM, Digimer wrote: I can't speak to backuppc, but I am curious how you're managing the resources. Are you using cman + rgmanager or pacemaker? strictly manually, with drbdadm and such. if the primary backup server ever fails, I'll bring up the backup by hand. On 10/12/20

Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/10/14 04:07 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/11/2014 11:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote: so I've had a drbd replica running for a while of a 16TB raid thats used as a backuppc repository. oh. this is running on a pair of centos 6.latest boxes, each dual xeon x5650 w/ 48GB ram, with LSI SAS2 r

Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread Digimer
On 12/10/14 02:30 AM, John R Pierce wrote: so I've had a drbd replica running for a while of a 16TB raid thats used as a backuppc repository. when I have rebooted the backuppc server, the replica doesn't seem to auto-restart til I do it manually, and the backupc /data file system on this 16TB LU

Re: [CentOS] drbd

2014-10-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/11/2014 11:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote: so I've had a drbd replica running for a while of a 16TB raid thats used as a backuppc repository. oh. this is running on a pair of centos 6.latest boxes, each dual xeon x5650 w/ 48GB ram, with LSI SAS2 raid card hooked up to a whole lotta sas/sa

[CentOS] drbd

2014-10-11 Thread John R Pierce
so I've had a drbd replica running for a while of a 16TB raid thats used as a backuppc repository. when I have rebooted the backuppc server, the replica doesn't seem to auto-restart til I do it manually, and the backupc /data file system on this 16TB LUN doesn't seem to automount, either. I'

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread James Hogarth
> > I also haven't investigated yet if drbd devices can be 'grown' ... pause > replication, lvextend slave and master, xfs_grow the master, and resume > replication? or is that too easy and it won't work... > They can be grown (I used it for static image store on the Sky Entertainment websites

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-02-26, John R Pierce wrote: > > the use case is more like, if the primary backup server fails, I'd like > to have the secondary backup server running within a few hours of > futzing with the existing backups available for recovery. If you're doing something rsync-like, and if your buil

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/26/2013 4:17 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, John R Pierce wrote: > >> >the initial sync of the 8TB starting volumes is looking to be a 460 hour >> >affair. > Something wrong here. That's only 5 MB/sec; I did an initial sync of a > 10TB volume in less than a day (dual bonded g

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, John R Pierce wrote: > the initial sync of the 8TB starting volumes is looking to be a 460 hour > affair. Something wrong here. That's only 5 MB/sec; I did an initial sync of a 10TB volume in less than a day (dual bonded gigabits, dedicated). Steve _

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/26/2013 3:36 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > That should work, but what happens if they ever get out of sync? How > long will it take drbd to catch up with something that size? the initial sync of the 8TB starting volumes is looking to be a 460 hour affair. yeouch. I might have to rethink th

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > don't have anywhere near that sort of uptime requirements, but when data > starts spiralling out into the multi-terabytes with billions of file > links, rsync is painfully slow. Yes, the one problem with backuppc is that the number of hard

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/26/2013 3:03 PM, Patrick Flaherty wrote: > That being said, if you have a requirement that your backup solution > is up five nines, then yeah, use drbd / pacemaker, it's just not a use > case I see very often. don't have anywhere near that sort of uptime requirements, but when data starts sp

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread Patrick Flaherty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > hey, I have an application for drbd replication between a pair of EL6 > servers, and I just realized that drbd is no longer built in. > > googling found me this blog on doing it using ElRepo distributions... > http://www.broexperts.com/2012/0

Re: [CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > hey, I have an application for drbd replication between a pair of EL6 > servers, and I just realized that drbd is no longer built in. > > googling found me this blog on doing it using ElRepo distributions... > http://www.broexperts.com/2012/0

[CentOS] drbd and el6

2013-02-26 Thread John R Pierce
hey, I have an application for drbd replication between a pair of EL6 servers, and I just realized that drbd is no longer built in. googling found me this blog on doing it using ElRepo distributions... http://www.broexperts.com/2012/06/how-to-install-drbd-on-centos-6-2/ is that still best pract

Re: [CentOS] DRBD question

2011-02-15 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
> > Anyone experienced in DRBD > pls read this.. http://planetmysql.ru/2010/07/21/mysql-ha-with-drdb-and-heartbeat-on-centos-5-5/ another url http://alexsdba.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F86565E81CD9BC16!150.entry http://alexsdba.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F86565E81CD9BC16!149.entry http://alexsd

Re: [CentOS] DRBD question

2011-02-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/15/2011 09:02 AM, ann kok wrote: > Hi > > Anyone experienced in DRBD Sort of ... > > ls it good in using mysql redundant? > I use DRBD to keep whole servers redundant ... one of the things it keeps redundant is mysql. If the machine was only a database server I would likely do it diffe

Re: [CentOS] DRBD question

2011-02-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/15/2011 9:18 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > >> Anyone experienced in DRBD > > Is this a CentOS question, or a data base language question? > What mailing-list or news group is the best choice for this question? DRBD is closer to an OS-related topic than a database... You could go to the HA-

Re: [CentOS] DRBD question

2011-02-15 Thread John Doe
From: ann kok > Anyone experienced in DRBD > ls it good in using mysql redundant? > What is it best to use? Maybe check http://mysql-mmm.org/ JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] DRBD question

2011-02-15 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of ann kok > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:03 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] DRBD question > > Hi > > Anyone experienced in DRBD

[CentOS] DRBD question

2011-02-15 Thread ann kok
Hi Anyone experienced in DRBD ls it good in using mysql redundant? What is it best to use? Thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] DRBD update 8.3.9 (Was: drbd update 8.3.8.1)

2010-10-22 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Shad L. Lords wrote: > >> Can we get a refresh of the drbd packages to 8.3.8.1 >> >> There was a fix to the resync protocol. 8.3.8 would stall under certain >> circumstances. > > If you haven't tried the ELRepo DRBD packages yet, could

Re: [CentOS] drbd update 8.3.8.1

2010-10-06 Thread Dag Wieers
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Shad L. Lords wrote: > >> Can we get a refresh of the drbd packages to 8.3.8.1 >> >> There was a fix to the resync protocol. 8.3.8 would stall under certain >> circumstances. > > If you haven't tried the ELRepo DRBD packages yet, could

Re: [CentOS] drbd update 8.3.8.1

2010-10-03 Thread Shad Lords
On 10/2/2010 6:12 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > If you haven't tried the ELRepo DRBD packages yet, could you please test > the one at: > > http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/i386/RPMS/ > http://elrepo.org/linux/testing/el5/x86_64/RPMS/ > > and provide feedback ? The more people test and prov

Re: [CentOS] drbd update 8.3.8.1

2010-10-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The more people test and provide feedback, the >quicker we can move it out of testing, into the elrepo repository. Dag, I got these on my cluster at work, it will be exercised thoroughly this weekend with a tb of data changing, I'll report back next week. jlc ___

Re: [CentOS] drbd update 8.3.8.1

2010-10-02 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Shad L. Lords wrote: > Can we get a refresh of the drbd packages to 8.3.8.1 > > There was a fix to the resync protocol. 8.3.8 would stall under certain > circumstances. Hi Shad, If you haven't tried the ELRepo DRBD packages yet, could you please test the one at: h

[CentOS] drbd update 8.3.8.1

2010-09-30 Thread Shad L. Lords
Can we get a refresh of the drbd packages to 8.3.8.1 There was a fix to the resync protocol. 8.3.8 would stall under certain circumstances. Thanks, -Shad ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] DRBD update

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel Bruno
Hello, Someone had some problem recently with DRBD updates? Thanks, -- Daniel Bruno http://danielbruno.eti.br ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-22 Thread Bob Beers
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 9:03 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 17:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale >> wrote: >> >>This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they >> >>already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and i

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-22 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 17:11 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: > >>This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they > >>already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well). > > > > No its not, the CentOS pac

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 2:35 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Am 21.06.10 20:45, schrieb Joseph L. Casale: >>> http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells me something else (and yes, this >>> time they will go into extras). >> >> Well, we talked about it for some time and I never saw an update to >> the effort someone m

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 21.06.10 20:45, schrieb Joseph L. Casale: >> http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells me something else (and yes, this >> time they will go into extras). > > Well, we talked about it for some time and I never saw an update to > the effort someone made (my bad? I must have missed that). Couple > thi

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 21.06.10 18:21, schrieb Dag Wieers: > Once again, I didn't want any controversy, we are just looking for CentOS > people that are willing to test and provide feedback regarding the ELRepo > kmod-drbd packages (preferably on the ELRepo bug-tracker / mailinglist to > not cause even more contro

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells me something else (and yes, this >time they will go into extras). Well, we talked about it for some time and I never saw an update to the effort someone made (my bad? I must have missed that). Couple this with the concerns posted by Dag that motivated him to s

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/21/2010 11:21 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > > Now, it shouldn't really matter to users whether this is a duplication of > effort or not. Users will now have additional choice, if CentOS delays or > skips a release, ELRepo might have it available. Everybody wins. On the other hand, it is likely to c

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: > >>> This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they >>> already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well). >> >> No its not, the CentOS packages are no l

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they >>already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well). > > No its not, the CentOS packages are no longer maintained... http://dev.centos.org/testing/ tells

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>This seems like duplication of effort with the CentOS people, since they >already package DRBD for CentOS 5.x (and it works very well). No its not, the CentOS packages are no longer maintained... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] DRBD,GFS2 and GNBD without all clustered cman stuff

2010-04-14 Thread Raffaele Camarda
Thanks Juergen for your response. I did not post till now because i've been fighting with all cluster stuff ! :D I mean GFS2. DRBD, mysql and heartbeat work fine in an active/passive configuration. What really does not fit to my needs is the cluster stuff which i have to use only to be able to mo

Re: [CentOS] DRBD,GFS2 and GNBD without all clustered cman stuff

2010-03-29 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
Hi, yes, you need to go with the Cluster Stuff... Regarding your Setup, i got the best experience with drbd + gfs + iscsi export. GNBD was not as Stable than i expected. Overall Performance was even worse, too compared with iSCSI. Greetings Juergen On 03/27/2010 05:39 PM, Raffaele Camarda wrot

[CentOS] DRBD,GFS2 and GNBD without all clustered cman stuff

2010-03-27 Thread Raffaele Camarda
Hi all, Where i want to arrive: 1) having two storage server replicating partition with DRBD 2) exporting via GNBD from the primary server the drbd with GFS2 3) inporting the GNBD on some nodes and mount it with GFS2 Assuming no logical error are done in the last points logic this is the situati

Re: [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-12 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Ralph? Are you the dev in charge of the maintenance? Looks like I have to be :) Cheers, Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Nicholas L. Soms wrote: > OK, thank you! > > One more question. > Does anyone have the same problem - when installing drbd-kmdl package via > yum, madwifi packages needs to remove. May be I missed something, but I also > need madwifi packages =) There is some conf

Re: [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-12 Thread Nicholas L. Soms
OK, thank you! One more question. Does anyone have the same problem - when installing drbd-kmdl package via yum, madwifi packages needs to remove. May be I missed something, but I also need madwifi packages =) 2010/3/11 Akemi Yagi > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Thu

Re: [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>No, it is a kernel version independent, kABI-tracking kernel module. >>So, it should survive each kernel update. No need for rebuilding.  (It >>is different from drbd-kmdl) > > Akemi, > Funny, there was just a thread on the extra repo's dr

Re: [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>No, it is a kernel version independent, kABI-tracking kernel module. >So, it should survive each kernel update. No need for rebuilding. (It >is different from drbd-kmdl) Akemi, Funny, there was just a thread on the extra repo's drbd packages today in the drbd list. Given those packages have bugs

Re: [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nicholas L. Soms wrote: >> Dear collegues! >> >> I've got one question about drbd-kmdl packages. >> As I can see at >> $ rpm -qp --qf "%{DESCRIPTION}" kmod-drbd-8.0.16-5.el5_3.i686.rpm >> This package provides t

Re: [CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Nicholas L. Soms wrote: > Dear collegues! > > I've got one question about drbd-kmdl packages. > As I can see at > $ rpm -qp --qf "%{DESCRIPTION}" kmod-drbd-8.0.16-5.el5_3.i686.rpm > This package provides the drbd kernel modules built for the Linux > kernel 2.6.18-1

[CentOS] drbd-kmdl packages question

2010-03-11 Thread Nicholas L. Soms
Dear collegues! I've got one question about drbd-kmdl packages. As I can see at $ rpm -qp --qf "%{DESCRIPTION}" kmod-drbd-8.0.16-5.el5_3.i686.rpm This package provides the drbd kernel modules built for the Linux kernel 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 for the i686 family of processors. So, the question is - km

[CentOS] DRBD Info

2010-02-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hey Guys, I want to use drbd (prot A) to handle replication for some backup volumes. I see 8/8.2/8.3 available, are the 8.3 packages considered stable? The files on the primary node will be from 2->400 gig in size. The nodes are interconnected by gig fiber, the volumes will be lvm backed, given I

Re: [CentOS] DRBD error : Invalid module format

2009-12-31 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:45 PM, robert mena wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to use drbd in my centos 5.4 but I keep getting errors. > When I try modprobe -v drbd I receive > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/extra/drbd/drbd.ko > FATAL: Error inserting drbd > (/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/extra/d

[CentOS] DRBD error : Invalid module format

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
Hi, I am trying to use drbd in my centos 5.4 but I keep getting errors. When I try modprobe -v drbd I receive insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/extra/drbd/drbd.ko FATAL: Error inserting drbd (/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/extra/drbd/drbd.ko): Invalid module format. The current (running) ke

Re: [CentOS] DRBD

2009-12-19 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Scott McClanahan wrote: > Would any of you be comfortable running the drbd packages from the > extras repo? If so, any particular version .. I notice 8.0, 8.2, 8.3. > I'll do my own due diligence but just curious if the list has any > implementation based feedback. Thanks. > I've used DRBD on s

Re: [CentOS] DRBD

2009-12-18 Thread Jacob Bresciani
I am currently playing with the 8.3 package (8.2 redirects to 8.3 btw). so far I haven't had any issues with it. Jacob Bresciani Linux Systems Administrator Advanced Economic Research Systems / Terapeak Cell: 250 418-5412 On 2009-12-18, at 8:53 AM, Flaherty, Patrick wrot

Re: [CentOS] DRBD

2009-12-18 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
> Would any of you be comfortable running the drbd packages > from the extras repo? If so, any particular version .. I > notice 8.0, 8.2, 8.3. > I'll do my own due diligence but just curious if the list has > any implementation based feedback. Thanks. I've been running 8.0 for a year or more

[CentOS] DRBD

2009-12-18 Thread Scott McClanahan
Would any of you be comfortable running the drbd packages from the extras repo? If so, any particular version .. I notice 8.0, 8.2, 8.3. I'll do my own due diligence but just curious if the list has any implementation based feedback. Thanks. ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 21, 2009, at 6:27 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 08/20/2009 05:46 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: >> Xen DomU >> >> DRBD >> >> LVM Volume >> >> RAID 1 >> > > this makes no sense, you are loosing about 12% of i/o capability > here - > even before hitt

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/20/2009 05:46 PM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Xen DomU > > DRBD > > LVM Volume > > RAID 1 > this makes no sense, you are loosing about 12% of i/o capability here - even before hitting drbd, and then taking another hit on whatever drbd brings in ( depen

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-20 Thread Alan Sparks
Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello Alan, > > This is my current setup: > > Xen DomU > > DRBD > > LVM Volume > > RAID 1 > > > What I first wanted to do was: > > DomU | DRBD > > LVM Volume > > RAID 1 > > If I understand you diagram, y

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-20 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:38 -0600, Alan Sparks wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester > > wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> > >> I am running drbd protocol A to a secondary machine to have > >> 'backups' of > >> my xen domUs. > >> > >> Is it neces

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-20 Thread Alan Sparks
Ross Walker wrote: > On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> >> I am running drbd protocol A to a secondary machine to have >> 'backups' of >> my xen domUs. >> >> Is it necessary to change the xen domains configs to use /dev/drbd* >> instead of the LVM

Re: [CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 20, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > > I am running drbd protocol A to a secondary machine to have > 'backups' of > my xen domUs. > > Is it necessary to change the xen domains configs to use /dev/drbd* > instead of the LVM volume that drbd mirrors, and which t

[CentOS] drbd xen question

2009-08-20 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, I am running drbd protocol A to a secondary machine to have 'backups' of my xen domUs. Is it necessary to change the xen domains configs to use /dev/drbd* instead of the LVM volume that drbd mirrors, and which the xen domU runs of? regards, Coert ___

Re: [CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-29 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:30 PM, "Andrea Dell'Amico" wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 16:16 +0200, Andrea Dell'Amico wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 09:55 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure the crash is DRBD related: until the secondary drbd >> server is detached, all is working well. Th

Re: [CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-29 Thread Andrea Dell'Amico
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 16:16 +0200, Andrea Dell'Amico wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 09:55 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > I'm pretty sure the crash is DRBD related: until the secondary drbd > server is detached, all is working well. There are 23 guests running, > right now, some of them paravirtualize

Re: [CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-29 Thread Andrea Dell'Amico
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 09:55 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > I read on another forum how a user using iSCSI for domUs was > experiencing network hangs due to the fact that dom0 didn't have > enough scheduler credits to handle the network throughput. That might > be related. > > http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-29 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 29, 2009, at 7:52 AM, "Andrea Dell'Amico" wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:31 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > >>> When the two hosts are in sync, if I activate more than a few (six >>> or >>> seven) xen guests, the master server crashes spectacularly and >>> reboots. >>> >>> I've

Re: [CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-29 Thread Andrea Dell'Amico
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:31 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > When the two hosts are in sync, if I activate more than a few (six or > > seven) xen guests, the master server crashes spectacularly and reboots. > > > > I've seen a kernel dump over the serial console, but the machine > > restarts i

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-29 Thread Roman Savelyev
July 27, 2009 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:18 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: >> > Invest in a HW RAID card with NVRAM cache that will negate the need >> > for barrier writes from the OS as the controller will issue them async >&

Re: [CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-28 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 20:11 +0200, Andrea Dell'Amico wrote: > Hello, > I have a couple of Dell 2950 III, both of them with CentOS 5.3, Xen, > drbd 8.2 and cluster suite. > Hardware: 32DB RAM, RAID 5 with 6 SAS disks (one hot spare) on a PERC/6 > controller. > > I configured DRBD to use the main n

[CentOS] DRBD on a xen host: crash on high I/O

2009-07-28 Thread Andrea Dell'Amico
Hello, I have a couple of Dell 2950 III, both of them with CentOS 5.3, Xen, drbd 8.2 and cluster suite. Hardware: 32DB RAM, RAID 5 with 6 SAS disks (one hot spare) on a PERC/6 controller. I configured DRBD to use the main network interfaces (bnx2 driver), with bonding and crossover cables to have

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-28 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 18:18 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Coert Waagmeester > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:37 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2009-07-27

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 27, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Coert Waagmeester > wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:37 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello Roman, I am running drbd 8.2.6 (the standard ce

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:37 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > > > >> Hello Roman, > > >> > > >> I am running drbd 8.2.6 (the standard centos version) > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:02 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > >> Hello Roman, > >> > >> I am running drbd 8.2.6 (the standard centos version) > > > Hi, > > have you considered to test the drbd-8.3 packages? > > http://bugs.c

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-27 Thread Alexander Dalloz
> > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: >> Hello Roman, >> >> I am running drbd 8.2.6 (the standard centos version) Hi, have you considered to test the drbd-8.3 packages? http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3598 http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/{i386,x86_64}/RPMS/

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-26 Thread John R Pierce
> On google I found the following page: > http://www.nabble.com/Huge-latency-issue-with-8.2.6-td18947965.html > > I have found in the drbdsetup (8) man page the sndbuf-size option, and I > will try setting this. > > On the nabble page they talk about the TCP_NODELAY and TCP_QUICKACK > socket optio

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-26 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 08:30 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:18 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: > > > Invest in a HW RAID card with NVRAM cache that will negate the need > > > for barrier writes from the OS as the controller will issue them async > > > from cache allowing I/

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-26 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:18 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: > > Invest in a HW RAID card with NVRAM cache that will negate the need > > for barrier writes from the OS as the controller will issue them async > > from cache allowing I/O to continue flowing. This really is the safest > > method. > It's

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-26 Thread Roman Savelyev
> Invest in a HW RAID card with NVRAM cache that will negate the need > for barrier writes from the OS as the controller will issue them async > from cache allowing I/O to continue flowing. This really is the safest > method. It's a better way. But socket oprions in DRBD up to 8.2 (Nagel alghoritm)

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-26 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 09:27 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:28 AM, Coert Waagmeester > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:21 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: > >> 1. You are hit by Nagel alghoritm (slow TCP response). You can > >> build DRBD > >> 8.3. In 8.3 "TCP_NODELAY"

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:28 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:21 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: >> 1. You are hit by Nagel alghoritm (slow TCP response). You can >> build DRBD >> 8.3. In 8.3 "TCP_NODELAY" and "QUICK_RESPONSE" implemented in place. >> 2. You are hit by DRBD pr

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-24 Thread Roman Savelyev
> I have googled the triple barriers thing but cant find that much > information. Please refer to drbdsetup(8) for detailed description of the parameters. no-disk-barrier, no-disk-flushes, no-disk-drain, no-md-flushes > Would it help if I used IPv6 instead of IPv4? No. And small transaction must

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-24 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:21 +0400, Roman Savelyev wrote: > 1. You are hit by Nagel alghoritm (slow TCP response). You can build DRBD > 8.3. In 8.3 "TCP_NODELAY" and "QUICK_RESPONSE" implemented in place. > 2. You are hit by DRBD protocol. In most cases, "B" is enought. > 3. You are hit by triple

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-23 Thread Roman Savelyev
1. You are hit by Nagel alghoritm (slow TCP response). You can build DRBD 8.3. In 8.3 "TCP_NODELAY" and "QUICK_RESPONSE" implemented in place. 2. You are hit by DRBD protocol. In most cases, "B" is enought. 3. You are hit by triple barriers. In most cases you are need only one of "barrier, flush,

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 18:16 -0700, Ian Forde wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:16 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > The highest speed I can get through that link with drbd is 11 MB/sec > > (megabytes) > > Not good... > > > But if I copy a 1 gig file over that link I get 110 MB/sec. > > That t

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, For completeness here is my current setup: host1: Xeon Quad-Core 8GB RAM Centos 5.3 64bit 2x 1TB seagate sata disks in software raid level 1 LVM on top of the raid for dom0 root fs and for all domU root FSses host2: Xeon Dual-Core 8GB RAM Centos 5.3 64bit 2x 1TB seagate sata disks i

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Ian Forde
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:16 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > The highest speed I can get through that link with drbd is 11 MB/sec > (megabytes) Not good... > But if I copy a 1 gig file over that link I get 110 MB/sec. That tells me that the network connection is fine. The issue is at a higher

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 22, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Coert Waagmeester > wrote: > >> >> I am reading up on this on the internet as well, but all the tcp >> settings and disk settings make me slightly nervous... > > Just get it going without those tuning options, run som

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > > I am reading up on this on the internet as well, but all the tcp > settings and disk settings make me slightly nervous... Just get it going without those tuning options, run some bench marks on it, see where it is not performing well, l

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 22, 2009, at 5:16 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > we have a new setup with xen on centos5.3 > > I run drbd from lvm volumes to mirror data between the two servers. > > both servers are 1U nec rack mounts with 8GB RAM, 2x mirrored 1TB > seagate satas. > > The one is a dual cor

Re: [CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:16 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > we have a new setup with xen on centos5.3 > > I run drbd from lvm volumes to mirror data between the two servers. > > both servers are 1U nec rack mounts with 8GB RAM, 2x mirrored 1TB > seagate satas. > > The one is a

[CentOS] DRBD very slow....

2009-07-22 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, we have a new setup with xen on centos5.3 I run drbd from lvm volumes to mirror data between the two servers. both servers are 1U nec rack mounts with 8GB RAM, 2x mirrored 1TB seagate satas. The one is a dual core xeon, and the other a quad-core xeon. I have a gigabit crossover link

Re: [CentOS] [DRBD-user] Unexplained reboots in DRBD82 + OCFS2 setup

2009-06-30 Thread Kris Buytaert
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:42 +0200, Kris Buytaert wrote: > > Use a serial console, attach that to some "monitoring" host. > > (you can useUSB-to-Serial, they are cheap and work), and log > > on that one. You'll get the last messages from there. > > > I indeed had hoped to see some output on on the

Re: [CentOS] DRBD+GFS - Logical Volume problem

2009-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
2009/6/5 Giuseppe Fuggiano : > Hi list. > > I am dealing with DRBD (+GFS as its DLM).  GFS configuration needs a > CLVMD configuration.  So, after syncronized my (two) /dev/drbd0 block > devices, I start the clvmd service and try to create a clustered > logical volume.  I get this: ...snip... > Wha

[CentOS] DRBD+GFS - Logical Volume problem

2009-06-05 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
Hi list. I am dealing with DRBD (+GFS as its DLM). GFS configuration needs a CLVMD configuration. So, after syncronized my (two) /dev/drbd0 block devices, I start the clvmd service and try to create a clustered logical volume. I get this: On "alice": [r...@alice ~]# pvcreate /dev/drbd0 Phys

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