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2022

Tail Latencies in Percona Server because of InnoDB Stalls on Empty Free List

Posted by Jean-François Gagné on Wed 30 Nov 2022 23:43 UTC
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innodb, sysbench, flushing, percona server, stalls, MySQL, dbdeployer, backoff, Free List, Free Page, Innodb_buffer_pool_wait_free, innodb_empty_free_list_algorithm, innodb_lru_scan_depth, Tail Latencies

If, in Percona Server, you are observing tail latencies on queries that should be fast, this might be a side effect of Percona's improved InnoDB Empty Free List Algorithm.  When using this algorithm (the default in 5.6 and 5.7 and optional configuration in 8.0), a query needing a free page while none are available waits until the LRU Manager Thread refills the free list.  Because this

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