The Question Recently, a customer asked us:

What would cause a node switch to fail in a Tungsten Cluster?

For example, we saw the following during a recent session where a switch failed:

cctrl> switch to db3 

SELECTED SLAVE: db3@alpha 
SET POLICY: MAINTENANCE => MAINTENANCE 
PURGE REMAINING ACTIVE SESSIONS ON CURRENT MASTER 'db1@alpha' 
PURGED A TOTAL OF 0 ACTIVE SESSIONS ON MASTER 'db1@alpha' 
FLUSH TRANSACTIONS ON CURRENT MASTER 'db1@alpha' 
Exception encountered during SWITCH. 
Failed while setting the replicator 'db1' role to 'slave' 
ClusterManagerException: Exception while executing command 'replicatorStatus' on manager 'db1' 
Exception=Failed to execute '/alpha/db1/manager/ClusterManagementHelper/replicatorStatus alpha db3' 
Reason= 
CLUSTER_MEMBER(true) 
STATUS(FAIL) 
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 
|alpha | …

The Question Recently, a customer asked us:

Why would heavy disk IO cause the Tungsten Manager and not MySQL to be starved of resources?

For example, we saw the following in the Manager log file tmsvc.log:

2019/06/03 00:50:30 | Pinging the JVM took 29 seconds to respond.
2019/06/03 00:50:30 | Pinging the JVM took 25 seconds to respond.
2019/06/03 00:50:30 | Pinging the JVM took 21 seconds to respond.
2019/06/03 00:50:30 | Pinging the JVM took 16 seconds to respond.
2019/06/03 00:50:30 | Pinging the JVM took 12 seconds to respond.
2019/06/03 00:50:30 | Pinging the JVM took 8 seconds to respond.

The Answer Why a Java application might be slow or freezing

The answer is that if a filesystem is busy being written to by another process, the background I/O will cause the Java JVM garbage collection (GC) to pause.

This problem is not specific to Continuent Tungsten …

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