Why do I see a large performance hit with DRBD?
- by BHS
I see a much larger performance hit with DRBD than their user manual says I should get. I'm using DRBD 8.3.7 (Fedora 13 RPMs).
I've setup a DRBD test and measured throughput of disk and network without DRBD:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/data.tmp bs=512M count=1 oflag=direct
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 4.62985 s, 116 MB/s
/ is a logical volume on…