Are you using EBS?
On Oct 23, 1:47 pm, mikeytag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex,
> It seems that Scalr does the bundles and backups on the master
> instance. Is there any way to switch this or give an option to doing
> it on a slave? I am thinking along the lines of:
>
> 1. Pull slave out of DNS and /etc/aws/hosts/mysql
> 2. Bundle data
> 3. Bring slave back
>
> That way the master never encounters extra load to bundle and upload
> the instances. Our application is very write heavy, so our master
> instance is under high load, even with an m1.xlarge instance. (Crazy I
> know ;)) Moving bundling to a slave instance would help preserve any
> precious resources on the master and I would gladly pay the extra cost
> to have an extra slave running if it helps with the stability of the
> master.
>
> The truth is we are bumping up against the limits of a master/slave
> replication based architecture as our writes are continuing to build.
> I am looking into alternative designs including sharding, ScaleDB
> (beta), etc. In the mean time, it would be nice to squeeze every last
> ounce out of the master that I can.
>
> Mike
>
> On Oct 23, 1:30 pm, Alex Kovalyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Guys will be able to check this in few hours only..
> > Enough space on instance? Using InnoDB? What's in mysql logs?
>
> > On 23.10.08 23:06, "mikeytag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > As of 5 AM PST this morning, my mysqllvm64 master instance would hang
> > > on inserts. Selects were fine, but nothing would get inserted. I
> > > noticed that this all started when it received a bundle trap. We do a
> > > bundle every 5 hours. Fearing this as the culprit I unchecked the
> > > bundling box for now. However, on that screen I noticed that it says
> > > my db instance (custom mysqllvm64 role) is Based on role: mysql.
> > > Maybe this is the culprit? Did Scalr somehow switch my db instances
> > > into operating as mysql roles instead of mysqllvm64 roles?
> > > My farm id is 517 if that helps at all.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
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