Posted by peter

I was working with the customer today investigating MySQL over DRBD performance issues. His basic question was why there is so much overhead with DRBD in my case, while it is said there should be no more than 30% overhead when DRBD is used.

The truth is - because how DRBD works it does not adds static overhead which could be told as 10% or 80% and you really need to understand how DRBD works as well as how IO system is utilized to understand how much overhead you should expect.
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