Re: 5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention

2011-10-24 Thread Luis Motta Campos
The data size is about 200 GB. I would have noticed increase on writes. No backup activity is running (actually I don't do conventional backups). Any theories? Thank you for your interest. Kind regards, -- Luis Motta Campos On 23 Oct 2011, at 14:06, Tyler Poland tpol...@engineyard.com wrote:

Re: 5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention

2011-10-24 Thread Luis Motta Campos
Claudio, Thank you for your interest. I will wait for the issue to happen again and will see what kind of information I can get back with strace. This is indeed something I didn't think of trying yet. I'll keep you people posted on this. Much appreciated on the new approaches and fresh

Re: 5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention

2011-10-24 Thread Luis Motta Campos
Thank you for sharing your experience, Howard. As those are replica servers, I don't care much about losing a second worth of data in case of power failure. I believe the data centre has double independent power sources, and my hardware man assured me if the power goes down at the data centre

5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention

2011-10-23 Thread Luis Motta Campos
Fellow DBAs and MySQL Users [apologies for eventual duplicates - I've posted this to percona-discuss...@googlegroups.com also] I've been hunting an issue with my database cluster for several months now without much success. Maybe I'm overlooking something here. I've been observing the

Re: 5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention

2011-10-23 Thread Tyler Poland
Luis, How large is your database? Have you checked for an increase in write activity on the master leading up to this? Are you running a backup against the replica? Thank you, Tyler Sent from my Droid Bionic On Oct 23, 2011 5:40 AM, Luis Motta Campos luismottacam...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Fellow

Re: 5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention

2011-10-23 Thread Claudio Nanni
Luis, Very hard to tackle. In my experience, excluding external(to mysql) bottlenecks, like hardware, o.s. etc, 'suspects' are the shared resources 'guarded' by unique mutexes, like on the query cache or key cache. Since you do not use MySQL it cannot be the key cache. Since you use percona the

RE: 5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention

2011-10-23 Thread Howard Hart
: 5.1.51 Database Replica Slows Down Suddenly, Lags For Days, and Recovers Without Intervention Luis, Very hard to tackle. In my experience, excluding external(to mysql) bottlenecks, like hardware, o.s. etc, 'suspects' are the shared resources 'guarded' by unique mutexes, like on the query cache