Toolserver-announce August 2010

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High replag on s2/s5
by River Tarnell 28 Aug '10

28 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, There is currently a large amount of replication lag on the s2/s5 server. This might be related to a failed disk which will be replaced next week. In the mean time we will continue to monitor it. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkx3s/QACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJIJACfTKk8rhp3G7R3+Idn0ZT7pGf6 o9gAn0A8gqVS9OGnNy+xm46dpst7z0KO =RKXX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MySQL maintenance tonight
by River Tarnell 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I will be restarting all MySQL servers later tonight / tomorrow morning (UTC). For user databases (sql), there will be < 30 minutes downtime. For -rr replicated database, there will be no downtime except on s2/s5, where there will be < 30 minutes downtime. For -user replicated databases, there will be < 30 minutes downtime. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkx23+MACgkQIXd7fCuc5vIM8ACbBIfvnwizJb2NcfQ/fneyqWTe eHsAnRJPIKUimIY6wtf9w/VEj0rPKwBM =eulh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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MySQL & Ruby changes
by River Tarnell 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, We are about to make two changes to the Solaris login servers: * MySQL will be linked with libreadline instead of libeditline. The new MySQL will be more compatible with MySQL on Linux, but will not be able to read existing .mysql_history files previously created on Solaris. You may wish to remove your existing .mysql_history file. * The default Ruby (/usr/bin/ruby) will change from 1.9 to 1.8. Ruby 1.9 is still available it /usr/bin/ruby1.9. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkx2qYAACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJ6mACfSpusHWz/snPeNYvqzBfx7GwX 9iMAnjlcaOUKPxbVdIePhhmY/gP9jKJd =3Bsi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Reboot of nightshade
by DaB. 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hello all, I will reboot nightshade tonight at 22 o'clock UTC, because of an kernel- update, The process will be visible at https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-753 and there will be messages for the user, which are login, before. Sinclery, DaB. -- Userpage: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] — PGP: 2B255885

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Toolserver outage
by River Tarnell 18 Aug '10

18 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, There was an outage of the Toolserver from around 2200h, 17th August until around 0020h. The initial cause of the outage was a network issue at Wikimedia (who provide us with transit). The network outage caused a cascading failure of the two HA clusters (turnera/damiana and wolfsbane/ortelius), which prolonged the outage by about 20 minutes. The problem is now resolved and all services should be accessible again. Although the cluster outage did not significantly extend the outage (since cluster is quite good as recovering itself), it is nonetheless not something that should have happened, and we will be reviewing the cluster setup to prevent it happening in the future. - river.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxrGiUACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLk5QCdGZPp2+5/kDUW3jq+NZ6HkVb0 hDsAn1GBCTY9n2v/idrjNXa08Zrnmol3 =D8KG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Changes to 'sql' script
by River Tarnell 16 Aug '10

16 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It is now possible to specify the server type (RR or user) when using the 'sql' script: $ sql -u enwiki_p # Connect to user database $ sql -r enwiki_p # Connect to RR database If you currently use 'sql' for scripting, you should update your scripts to specify one of these options. Currently, the default (if no option is specified) is to connect to the obsolete sql-sX alias. This might change in future. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxpU08ACgkQIXd7fCuc5vKB1ACfYHHRSDMB9FWBbWUQvQNkNf1d 204An0Jcf8F1elf58gkNzOtDpbqDOJgR =+Q9g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Query time limiter
by River Tarnell 12 Aug '10

12 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've just added a new feature to the automated query killer which can be used to limit the execution time of queries. To use it, include the string LIMIT:<n> in your query. For example: SELECT /* LIMIT:60 */ * FROM ... would limit the query execution time to 60 seconds. This could be used in web tools to prevent excessively long page load times (where the user will gave given up by the time the query finishes), or as a sanity check on queries which usually finish quickly, but sometimes take too long. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxj8k4ACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJQWwCfaVYnSWoxSmEd8HesFcfUikeH dLsAn3sgbrnXQwpeGoyys48fad+gbQKO =HE6k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Changes to database access
by River Tarnell 07 Aug '10

07 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This mail describes two separate changes to how database access works. Please read all of it and make the necessary changes to your tools. Summary ======= This is a brief summary of the changes you should make: * If you currently use the fast server (sql-sX-fast or XXwiki-p.fastdb), change back to the normal server, then follow the rest of these instructions. * For tools which only connect to 'sql', no changes are necessary. * For tools which use database servers but *do not* use user databases: * If you currently connect to sql-sX.toolserver.org, instead connect to sql-sX-rr.toolserver.org * If you currently connect to XXwiki-p.db.toolserver.org, instead connect to XXwiki-p.rrdb.toolserver.org * For tools which use database servers and *do* use user databases: * If you currently connect to sql-sX.toolserver.org, instead connect to sql-sX-user.toolserver.org * If you currently connect to XXwiki-p.db.toolserver.org, instead connect to XXwiki-p.userdb.toolserver.org * If you have any queries which could run for longer than 10 minutes when working correctly, add the string SLOW_OK somewhere in the query, e.g.: SELECT /* SLOW_OK */ * FROM table... I will update the documentation on the wiki shortly to reflect these changes. The rest of this mail describes the changes in detail. RR servers ========== A while ago, we introduced the idea of 'fast' database servers, which only allowed queries running for less than 60 seconds. The idea was that since there were no long queries to create load on the server, it would be less likely to have replication lag than the normal servers. Since the introduction of fast servers, we have seen very little take-up of them, even for tools which could usefully use them. Additionally, we have not had much issue with replication lag recently. We will therefore be retiring the fast servers, and replacing them with RR servers. To connect to an RR server, the following hostnames should be used: * sql-sX-rr.toolserver.org * XXwiki-p.rrdb.toolserver.org Unlike the normal aliases, the RR server will randomly connect you to one of the two servers in each cluster. (For example, when connecting to sql-s1-rr, you will randomly connect to either thyme or rosemary.) There is no disadvantage for users to connect to the RR alias (since there is no limit on query execution time), and this will allow us to better distribute load among the database servers, which will reduce replication lag for everyone. It also makes it easier for us to add additional database servers to a cluster in the future. The only tools which cannot use the RR servers are tools which access user databases, since these databases are still only present on a single server. These tools should instead connect to the new "user" aliases: * sql-sX-user.toolserver.org * XXwiki-p.userdb.toolserver.org The user aliases will always point to the server which currently contains the user databases. Long query killer ================= To help prevent replication lag, we will be introducing an automatic query killer on all servers. This will work as follows: * If the replication lag is under 10 minutes, no queries will be killed. * If the replication lag is 10 minutes or more, but less than 30 minutes, queries will be killed if the following two conditions are both true: 1. The query does not contain the text SLOW_OK 2. The query has been running for X seconds or more, where X is the current replication lag. * If the replication lag is 30 minutes or more, queries will be killed if the following condition is true: 1. The query has been running for X seconds or more, where X is the current replication lag. This is intended to only kill queries which are causing replication lag (in particular, queries which cause InnoDB lock wait timeouts). We will monitor the performance of the query killer and might adjust the parameters in the future. If you find that your queries are being killed and you don't think they should have been, please open a request in JIRA. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxdHDMACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJi0wCdH8e8MkbHdVukfXxR9JGDTHz7 e6sAoLgvCpkNW39zJ1uhkGWnRTK61XF3 =n+x9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Perl & Python updates on Solaris
by River Tarnell 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Since no one reported any problems with Perl 5.12, this is now the default Perl version (/usr/bin/perl) on the Solaris systems. Additionally, Python 2.7 is now available as /usr/bin/python2.7. This is not yet the default version, but will become so if there are no issues. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxaWAgACgkQIXd7fCuc5vLTSwCgt9Y3sfm6KDUP3TPC/+qYt4SD x/AAn1pBJz8TMwBetE2eYk2cVdOFafSh =WOIe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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sql-s[25]-fast issue
by River Tarnell 03 Aug '10

03 Aug '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, yarrow (sql-s[25]-fast) is currently offline due to a problem with its disk array. All load for these clusters is being served by daphne and there should be no impact to users. - river. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxYV7kACgkQIXd7fCuc5vJu7QCfQvlpFbiHMys0CyDVSs/yCrHa L9AAn3Rjnl1lKK72zkm1BI0Xf94st2Jm =QTJz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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