Rhys.Campbell, 0 means off since kernel version 3.5.
See reference here:
https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/71095/why-not-set-swappiness-to-zero.html
That's why most people use 1 (safe value)
Michael Caplan: please look at the size of your mysqld process in
"ps aux" command output. Due to overhead it might be actually
bigger than 50G. I've checked settings we use in prod for MariaDB
10.1 on 64G server and I set the buffer pool no bigger than 47G.
Regards
Le ven. 15 juin 2018 à 16:28, <Rhys.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:Rhys.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> a écrit :
My understanding is that the OS should never allocate swap
when swappiness is 0, so that has me confused.
0 doesn't mean off. If you really want to turn if off then
see swapoff / adjust your fstab.
1) How much of this is an OS issue vs MariaDB issue?
I'd say it's an application problem. You simply have more
data than RAM. In your case it might be more important to
look at swap in/out to see if your server is under pressure.
I would have a look at the innodb buffer pool page usage by
database / table to try and figure out what's being pushed
into swap and go from there.
http://www.youdidwhatwithtsql.com/innodbbufferpage-queries/2041/
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Subject: [Maria-discuss] Chewing Through Swap - Swappiness = 0
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out why my recently put into production
MariaDB is so swap hungry.
I'm running 10.2.14, with roughly 300GB data (1000K +/-
tables). 95% tables are innodb. I have 64GB RAM, with INNODB
buffer pool size set to 50GB (full my.cnf below). The OS is
Ubuntu 16.04.4. This is a dedicated MariaDB server.
I have swappiness set to 0.
I started with available swap set to just shy of 1GB. When
swap got to 85% used, I bumped swap to 3GB. A day later,
swap again was 85% used, and I bumped it to 5GB. A day
later, swap again was 85% used, so I bumped it to 15GB. 2
days later 50% of the available swap was used. I restarted
the DB moments ago, freeing up all 15GB but 128MB of swap:
total used free shared
buff/cache available
Mem: 62G 20G 4.7G 266M 37G 41G
Swap: 14G 128M 14G
My understanding is that the OS should never allocate swap
when swappiness is 0, so that has me confused.
I've had similar issues with MySQL 5.6 (what I upgraded from)
dipping
into swap, but that instance had swappiness set to 1, and
never consumed
more than 5GB of swap.
Questions:
1) How much of this is an OS issue vs MariaDB issue?
2) What MariaDB config vars should I be looking at to fix
this issue?
3) What linux config vars should I be looking at to fix this
issue?
Thanks,
Mike
[mysqld]
# GENERAL #
user = mysql
default-storage-engine = InnoDB
character-set-server = utf8
collation_server = utf8_general_ci
performance_schema = 0
max_allowed_packet = 16777216
sql_mode =
"NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION"
# MyISAM #
key-buffer-size = 32M
myisam-recover = FORCE,BACKUP
# SAFETY #
max-allowed-packet = 16777216
max-connect-errors = 1000000
skip-name-resolve
sysdate-is-now = 1
innodb = FORCE
local_infile = 0
secure_auth = 1
safe_user_create = 1
skip_symbolic_links = 1
wait_timeout = 28800
# DATA STORAGE #
datadir = /var/lib/mysql/
# BINARY LOGGING #
log-bin = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin
binlog_format = MIXED
server-id = 3
expire-logs-days = 7
sync-binlog = 1
# REPLICATION #
read-only = 1
skip-slave-start = 1
log-slave-updates = 1
relay-log = /var/lib/mysql/relay-bin
slave-net-timeout = 60
sync-master-info = 1
sync-relay-log = 1
sync-relay-log-info = 1
# CACHES AND LIMITS #
tmp-table-size = 32M
max-heap-table-size = 32M
query-cache-type = 0
query-cache-size = 0
max-connections = 500
thread-cache-size = 50
open-files-limit = 65535
table-definition-cache = 4096
table-open-cache = 10240
# INNODB #
innodb-flush-method = O_DIRECT
innodb-log-files-in-group = 2
innodb-log-file-size = 512M
innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit = 2
innodb-file-per-table = 1
innodb-buffer-pool-size = 50G
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