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 layer... > Why is DRBD so slow? Let's see... > common { > protocol C; > syncer { rate 80M; } > net { > allow-two-primaries; > } > } You want allow-two-primaries? That implies that you're using something like ocfs2, but that's probably immaterial to the discussion... Here's a question - do you have another syncer statement in the resource definition that's set to a lower number? That would definitely throttle the sync rate... -I