>For switchover of writes, we'll need to coordinate an EL consumer restart
to use a new CNAME of m4-master.eqiad.wmnet
This is configuration change on the EL config plus a small downtime and a
re-start (easy). I am not sure how user /passwords  are setup on the config
so cc-ing otto to keep him in the loop.

 >allow vanadium the relevant network access, and then presumably do a
little backfilling.
Vanadium network access is something that I imagine ops needs to do as I
doubt we will have permits do do a network change.


>When would be a reasonable time within the next fortnight or so?
I think next week would work once backfiling for the past outages is over
-if it does work for you-

Thanks,

Nuria




On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Sean Pringle <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think we should split up Eventlogging and the other m2 clients (OTRS and
> some minor players). Several reasons:
>
> - Backfilling causes replication lag. Using faster out-of-band replication
> for EL is easy because it is all simple bulk-INSERT statements, but the
> same does not apply for the other clients. They need different approaches.
>
> - Master disk space. Even with the data purging discussed at the MW
> Summit, I would feel better if EL had more headroom that is does currently,
> and zero possibility of unexpected spikes in disk activity and usage
> affecting other services.
>
> - EL is the service most sensitive to connection dropouts. Recently Ori
> and Nuria have been tweaking SqlAlchemy, but future connection problems
> like those seen last week would be easier to debug without having to risk
> affecting other services.
>
> I am therefore arranging to promote the current m2 slave db1046 to master
> of an m4 cluster tuned for EL, including backfilling. Analytics-store,
> s1-analytics-slave, and the new CODFW server will simply switch to
> replicate from the new master.
>
> For switchover of writes, we'll need to coordinate an EL consumer restart
> to use a new CNAME of m4-master.eqiad.wmnet and allow vanadium the relevant
> network access, and then presumably do a little backfilling. When would be
> a reasonable time within the next fortnight or so?
>
> Sean
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