The TL;DR version: don’t use data-integrity-alg in a production setup. Continue reading
DRBD causes too much CPU-load
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Editing the Pacemaker configuration with VIM
For people using the VIM editor I’ve got two small tips when editing Pacemaker configurations:
Use syntax highlight. This helps to see unmatched quote characters easily. Whether it’s too colorful can be discussed, though 
A current version can be found here, and the mailing list post is here.
For correlating resource names I recommend the Mark plugin. Continue reading
“al-extents” explained
There is quite a bit of confusion about the DRBD configuration value al-extents (activity log extents), so here’s another shot at explaining it. Continue reading
Make the kernel start write-out earlier
Similar to the recent post about setting the vm.min_free_kbytes value there’s another sysctl that might improve the behaviour: the dirty ratio. Continue reading
DRBD resources need different monitor intervals
As briefly mentioned in Pacemaker Explained, DRBD devices need two different values set for their monitor intervals:
primitive pacemaker-resource-name ocf:linbit:drbd \
params drbd_resource="drbd-resource" \
op monitor interval="61s" role="Slave" \
op monitor interval="59s" role="Master"
The reason is that Pacemaker distinguishes monitor operations by their resource and their interval – but not by their role. So, if this distinction is not done “manually”, Pacemaker will monitor only one of the two (and, with DRBD 9, more) nodes, which is not what you want (usually).
Increase vm.min_free_kbytes for better OOM resistance
Depending on your setup and your workload (eg. within a virtual machine with little memory and much I/O) you could get into the situation that the kernel has little memory left, so wants to write some dirty pages to disk, but cannot, because for that it would need some memory free! Continue reading