Couchbase Server

mb_mnesia,ensure_schema timeout when restarting ns_server

Details

  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Resolved Resolved
  • Priority: Critical Critical
  • Resolution: Incomplete
  • Affects Version/s: 1.7 GA, 1.7.2
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: ns_server
  • Security Level: Public
  • Environment:
    1.7 GA

Description

users are run into this issue too often which i suspect has sth to do with the uptime or maybe an unclean shutdown of the server can result in this behavior.

asking customers to delete their statistics is not a very pleasent thing to do

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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
The code was actually ready for 2.0.1 but sadly too late. So 2.0.2 got it early.

Impact on upgrade process is simple. People will lose their stats archive. I.e. we don't bother converting stats from mnesia to new format. But note that rolling upgrade already causes them to lose historical stats.
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - The code was actually ready for 2.0.1 but sadly too late. So 2.0.2 got it early. Impact on upgrade process is simple. People will lose their stats archive. I.e. we don't bother converting stats from mnesia to new format. But note that rolling upgrade already causes them to lose historical stats.
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Dipti Borkar added a comment -
have you already removed mnesia?

If so is there any impact in the upgrade process ?
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Dipti Borkar added a comment - have you already removed mnesia? If so is there any impact in the upgrade process ?
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
Invalidated by removal of mnesia
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - Invalidated by removal of mnesia
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Daniel added a comment -
Attaching the relevant logs.
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Daniel added a comment - Attaching the relevant logs.
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
Let me explain "not really precious thing" better. Apparently it's too easily to misunderstand my original phrase as "we shouldn't save stats at all".

Mnesia does it's own journalling and crash recovery and durable commits and stuff like that. Or supposedly does.

My point was we don't need _that_ level of durability. That means that instead of trying to commit supposedly durable transaction via mnesia after each stats sample we'll accumulate changes and save them once or twice per minute. Saving itself (because it's not much data) can be made durable and cheap.

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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - Let me explain "not really precious thing" better. Apparently it's too easily to misunderstand my original phrase as "we shouldn't save stats at all". Mnesia does it's own journalling and crash recovery and durable commits and stuff like that. Or supposedly does. My point was we don't need _that_ level of durability. That means that instead of trying to commit supposedly durable transaction via mnesia after each stats sample we'll accumulate changes and save them once or twice per minute. Saving itself (because it's not much data) can be made durable and cheap.
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
Dipti, maybe I'm missing something and stats-in-mnesia is not "unfixable crap". But my plan since before 1.7.0 was to replace saving stats in mnesia with much simpler periodic snapshotting into plain file. Because stats are not really precious thing.

I estimate this work to be around 1-2 days including thorough testing.

We also had some plans for storing stats in couch, but given KISS principle I think my simplified approach is what we need.

Please, decide when we want this work to be done.
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - Dipti, maybe I'm missing something and stats-in-mnesia is not "unfixable crap". But my plan since before 1.7.0 was to replace saving stats in mnesia with much simpler periodic snapshotting into plain file. Because stats are not really precious thing. I estimate this work to be around 1-2 days including thorough testing. We also had some plans for storing stats in couch, but given KISS principle I think my simplified approach is what we need. Please, decide when we want this work to be done.
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
thanks for raising this again.

Looks like our workaround is not working all the time. For now manual workaround of deleting mnesia files and starting ns_server again will work.

For future we'll get rid of mnesia completely.
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - thanks for raising this again. Looks like our workaround is not working all the time. For now manual workaround of deleting mnesia files and starting ns_server again will work. For future we'll get rid of mnesia completely.
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Farshid Ghods added a comment -
reported by a user on 1.7.2
diags here : http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/19241756/file.html
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Farshid Ghods added a comment - reported by a user on 1.7.2 diags here : http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/19241756/file.html
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment -
fix merged
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Aleksey Kondratenko added a comment - fix merged
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Farshid Ghods added a comment -
the workaround is to remove all files under /opt/membase/var/lib/membase/mnesia/*.*
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Farshid Ghods added a comment - the workaround is to remove all files under /opt/membase/var/lib/membase/mnesia/*.*
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Farshid Ghods added a comment -
When a process is killed or dies, mnesia files might be left in a poor state that prevents restart.
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Farshid Ghods added a comment - When a process is killed or dies, mnesia files might be left in a poor state that prevents restart.

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  • Assignee:
    Aleksey Kondratenko
    Reporter:
    Farshid Ghods
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