RE: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-11-05 Thread heath boutwell
After a weekend of pretty heavy usuage (150-200 queries per sec) I can say the thread thrashing has been fixed with the latest binary. Our load averages however, are still 2-3x what they were with the older binary. Even when mysql isn't being queried at all (when apache is shut down) the load

RE: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-11-05 Thread Black, Kelly W [PCS]
the Perl program. Perform query. sleep 10; perform query. sleep 10; Hope this helps, ~Kelly W. Black -Original Message- From: heath boutwell [mailto:heathboutwell;yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a After

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Tue 2002-10-29 at 16:01:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:56:04PM -0800, heath boutwell wrote: [...] Load average of 1.5 seems high when we are only averaging 14 queries per sec (nothing else going crazy running on the box) procs

Re: Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread heath boutwell
MYTOP reports key eff at 98.30% +--+---+ | Variable_name| Value | +--+---+ | Aborted_clients | 58| | Aborted_connects | 6 | | Bytes_received | 281234326 | |

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread heath boutwell
Administrator Asarian-host.org --- If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn't call it code. - FedEx - Original Message - From: heath boutwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:34 PM Subject: Re: Thread Thrashing

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 30 October 2002 06:06, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:56:52AM +0100, Mark wrote: Is this all true? Bummer. :( I just upgraded to 3.23.53 (from .49). I cannot afford to get these huge load averages on my news

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:17:44AM +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: Hi. Allow me to disagree. Although most often the symptoms you cite are a sign that the operation is disk-bound, they are more a sign of blocking per se, of which the most common cause is disk operation. In the above case

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread heath boutwell
Heath, I once had similar symptoms when my DNS resolving had problems and all new connections slept for some seconds while they were waiting for an response. My work-around was to use --skip-name-resolve until the DNS problem was solved. Benjamin, Thanks for the suggestion but the connections

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:20:05AM -0800, heath boutwell wrote: Heath, I once had similar symptoms when my DNS resolving had problems and all new connections slept for some seconds while they were waiting for an response. My work-around was to use --skip-name-resolve until the DNS problem was

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-30 Thread Benjamin Pflugmann
Hi. On Wed 2002-10-30 at 10:20:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heath, I once had similar symptoms when my DNS resolving had problems and all new connections slept for some seconds while they were waiting for an response. My work-around was to use --skip-name-resolve until the DNS problem

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:28:01PM -0800, heath boutwell wrote: Can anyone that was experiencing the thread thrashing problems with the other binaries confirm that this has been with resolved with 53a? I've read others who've said it fixed the problem for them. Did you check the archives? --

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread heath boutwell
--- Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read others who've said it fixed the problem for them. Did you check the archives? Jeremy, Thanks for mytop. Its a great tool and its been a great help in diagnosing our problems. I saw where a few of the others claimed the latest binaries

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 02:34:44PM -0800, heath boutwell wrote: --- Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read others who've said it fixed the problem for them. Did you check the archives? Jeremy, Thanks for mytop. Its a great tool and its been a great help in diagnosing our

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 03:56:04PM -0800, heath boutwell wrote: --- Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, load average can be misleading. Can you maybe share the output of vmstat 1 or vmstat 5 for a minute's worth of time? It's be good to see what the CPUs states look like.

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread heath boutwell
--- Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're disk-bound, not CPU bound. Notice all the idle CPU time? And the fact that the b column always has one process listed, while r only does once in a while. 2 gigs of ram -- don't really know why we'd be disk bound. The my.cnf is pretty well

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 07:37:09PM -0800, heath boutwell wrote: --- Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're disk-bound, not CPU bound. Notice all the idle CPU time? And the fact that the b column always has one process listed, while r only does once in a while. 2 gigs of ram --

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread heath boutwell
--- Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you post the output of SHOW VARIABLES? | +-+ | back_log| 50

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:25:00PM -0800, heath boutwell wrote: --- Jeremy Zawodny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you post the output of SHOW VARIABLES? | | key_buffer_size | 402649088

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread Mark
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:34 PM Subject: Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a Jeremy, Thanks for mytop. Its a great tool and its been a great help in diagnosing our problems. I saw where a few of the others claimed the latest binaries resolved the issues. Its not clear

Re: Thread Thrashing and 3.23.53a

2002-10-29 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:56:52AM +0100, Mark wrote: Is this all true? Bummer. :( I just upgraded to 3.23.53 (from .49). I cannot afford to get these huge load averages on my news server. Nor can I afford thread thrashing. I just had to let myself be talked into upgrading. See if I still