What type of drives to you have on your system? That is often more important than CPU speed. My guess is that there are nightly maintenance crons slowing down disk access.
I have never monitored replication via the seconds-behind-master function as we do not use 4.1, so I can't speak for how accurate it is.. Atle - Flying Crocodile Inc, Unix Systems Administrator On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have two mysql boxes setup. Fast machines, I think they are dual 3ghz > with boat loads of ram. They are not real busy servers but they have > some pretty good sized tables, one of them with a few million rows. > > My question is, I have Nagios setup to monitor the seconds behind master > on the backup server. Usually the boxes are pretty current, within ten > or twenty seconds. Other times though they seem to get way behind, like > I just bumped the nagios warning email level up to 600 seconds. It > doesn't seem to have anything to do really with usage because it usually > happens in the middle of the night. Does Mysql do re-indexing or > something? What could I do to figure out why the replicatant box is > getting so far behind? > > --ja > > -- > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]