Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:38 -0400, "Michael Bacon" wrote: > When we spec'ed out our servers, we didn't put much I/O capacity into the > front-end servers -- just a pair of mirrored 10k disks doing the OS, the > logging, the mailboxes.db, and all the webmail action going on in another > solaris

Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Wesley Craig
On 19 Oct 2009, at 17:37, Michael Bacon wrote: > --On October 19, 2009 2:13:03 PM -0700 Andrew Morgan > wrote: >> What is causing a (re)sync of the frontends? Normally this should >> only >> happen when you start Cyrus on a frontend, right? > > I am not entirely sure. I think what may be happe

Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Michael Bacon wrote: > --On October 19, 2009 2:13:03 PM -0700 Andrew Morgan wrote: > >> What is causing a (re)sync of the frontends? Normally this should only >> happen when you start Cyrus on a frontend, right? > > I am not entirely sure. I think what may be happening is t

Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Awood
On Monday 19 October 2009 @ 16:38, Michael Bacon wrote: > > I say mostly because while most of the times the thing handles our > 80,000 users and 14,000+ simultaneous connections like a champ, > some of the time, we get some extreme pain, mostly due to syncs > between the MUPDATE master and the fr

Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Bacon
--On October 19, 2009 2:13:03 PM -0700 Andrew Morgan wrote: > What is causing a (re)sync of the frontends? Normally this should only > happen when you start Cyrus on a frontend, right? I am not entirely sure. I think what may be happening is that the slave mupdate requests get some kind of t

Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Michael Bacon wrote: > Hello, list, > > Today we're enjoying our first full work day of independence from the old > monolithic cyrus server installed in 1999 (Sun 6800 -- it's had new CPU > boards since then, but that's it), and on our new shiny cluster of T5220's > that are m

Re: painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Dan White
On 19/10/09 16:38 -0400, Michael Bacon wrote: >I say mostly because while most of the times the thing handles our 80,000 >users and 14,000+ simultaneous connections like a champ, some of the time, >we get some extreme pain, mostly due to syncs between the MUPDATE master >and the front-end server

painful mupdate syncs between front-ends and database server

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Bacon
Hello, list, Today we're enjoying our first full work day of independence from the old monolithic cyrus server installed in 1999 (Sun 6800 -- it's had new CPU boards since then, but that's it), and on our new shiny cluster of T5220's that are mostly happily operating as a murder. I say mostly