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[Gordan Bobic <gordan.bobic@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:56 AM Cédric Counotte
<cedric.counotte@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Concerning table_open_cache, it’s currently set to 13869 (however in config it’s set to 16384), global status shows this on new node, 9 hours after start:

That means you are out of file handles at systemd level.
systemctl edit mariadb
and add this to the override file:
[Service]
LimitNOFILE=1048576

systemctl daemon reload
systemctl restart mariadb

Yes, this will probably trigger the problem you are having, but with
some luck it may make it better in the future.
Do that on all nodes.

> +-----------------------------------+---------+
>
> | Table_open_cache_active_instances | 1       |
>
> | Table_open_cache_hits             | 2136757 |
>
> | Table_open_cache_misses           | 185097  |
>
> | Table_open_cache_overflows        | 146153  |
>
> +-----------------------------------+---------+
>
> +---------------+--------+
>
> | Opened_tables | 159629 |
>
> +---------------+--------+
>
>
>
> I’ve updated table_open_cache to 65536 on 2 servers and the cache_overflows stops increasing.
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> In /usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service, I see those:
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> LimitNOFILE=32768

That is way too low. This needs to be big enough to cover the sum total of:
max_connections
table_open_cache x2 (because innodb_open_files is separate)

There is generally no harm in bumping LimitNOFILE much higher on modern kernels.

> So I don’t understand why MariaDB decided to reduce the configured value? Not sure if changing the config will have any effect on the live value either? I’ll try to set both to 65536 this evening and see if it helps.

Because it tries to make sure that your total of the above mentioned
settings fits in the number of file handles it has available to it.

> Is it safe to increase both limits? Maybe to the value I use during mariabackup, which is 919200?

Yes, see above. But it requires a daemon-reload and a restart of the
service to take effect.

> All active nodes are used for writing, the HTTP load is spread evenly on all nodes. The ratio is 1.2% writes at 7780 read/sec with 125 write/sec on peak. Both read/writes are spread upon all active nodes using a load balancer using round-robin at the moment.

That is likely a part of your problem.
You should never ever use more than one Galera node for writing at a time.
Performance will be WORSE than performance of a single node, and you
will get deadlocks all over the place.
You can use any of them for reading, but you should never use more
than one at a time for writing.
It is a little concerning that you managed to get as far as putting
Galera into production for months without full awareness of this.

> During yesterday’s test the existing 2 nodes where active at first. Seeing the queries starting to be stuck I decided to activate the new node to spread the load in hope for some improvements, however it just made things even worse, so I deactivated it again.

The more writable nodes you have the worse the performance will get.
There should only ever be one writable node at a time.