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[Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 4:26 PM jocelyn fournier
<jocelyn.fournier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It’s not that tiny, this article is a bit old, but still valid:
>
> https://www.percona.com/blog/2008/11/21/how-to-calculate-a-good-innodb-log-file-size/
>
> If you don’t need a big redo log, reduce its side to avoid slow crash recovery

Starting with MariaDB Server 10.5, recovery should run faster than in
earlier versions, thanks to the easier-to-parse log format
(MDEV-12353) and some memory management optimizations such as
MDEV-21351. Furthermore, MariaDB 10.5 should not run out of memory on
recovery even when starting up with innodb_buffer_pool_size that is
smaller than innodb_redo_log_size. In earlier versions, the
calculations to avoid running out of memory are inaccurate.

A too small redo log may cause backup to fail, depending on the write
rate of the server. A server-assisted backup (some ideas are in
MDEV-14992) would solve that.

Marko