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We've recently migrated a legacy application from MySQL 5.5 on Amazon Linux to MariaDB 10.5.8 (latest, from the official repos) on Amazon Linux 2. The "hardware" went from an m3.large instance to an m5.large instance (both 8GB RAM, 2 CPUs).

The application uses MyISAM tables for the vast majority of its 18G data set.

No MariaDB config options were changed in the migration; the application & config settings are identical to the old server (which happily ran for months/years without leaks)

After the upgrade we're seeing mariadbd RSS growing linearly until it gets OOM killed by the kernel. It takes about 48 hours from server start to reach that point:

ram usage

The top graphs show the master, and the bottom ones show the replication slave (which does not appear to exhibit this leak; or at least much, much more slowly). The master server answers queries from users. It's not a "high load" application by any means; and it runs happily on the modestly powered instances we've been using.

The data was transferred via a dump/restore to the new server; we did not attempt to copy and upgrade the MySQL data files.

Output from the master server mysqltuner, config & show global status follows:

Tuner

# perl mysqltuner.pl 
 >>  MySQLTuner 1.7.20 - Major Hayden <[email protected]>

[--] Skipped version check for MySQLTuner script
[OK] Currently running supported MySQL version 10.5.8-MariaDB-log
[OK] Operating on 64-bit architecture
 
-------- Storage Engine Statistics -----------------------------------------------------------------
[--] Status: +Aria +CSV +InnoDB +MEMORY +MRG_MyISAM +MyISAM +PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA +SEQUENCE 
[--] Data in MyISAM tables: 17.1G (Tables: 169)
[--] Data in InnoDB tables: 3.5M (Tables: 10)
[--] Data in MEMORY tables: 0B (Tables: 5)
[OK] Total fragmented tables: 0
 
-------- Analysis Performance Metrics --------------------------------------------------------------
[--] innodb_stats_on_metadata: OFF
[OK] No stat updates during querying INFORMATION_SCHEMA.
 
-------- Performance Metrics -----------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] Up for: 1d 1h 24m 53s (29M q [325.984 qps], 1M conn, TX: 21G, RX: 7G)
[--] Reads / Writes: 59% / 41%
[--] Binary logging is enabled (GTID MODE: OFF)
[--] Physical Memory     : 7.5G
[--] Max MySQL memory    : 8.8G
[--] Other process memory: 0B
[--] Total buffers: 1.3G global + 50.7M per thread (150 max threads)
[--] P_S Max memory usage: 72B
[--] Galera GCache Max memory usage: 0B
[OK] Maximum reached memory usage: 5.4G (72.66% of installed RAM)
[!!] Maximum possible memory usage: 8.8G (116.85% of installed RAM)
[!!] Overall possible memory usage with other process exceeded memory
[OK] Slow queries: 0% (11/29M)
[OK] Highest usage of available connections: 55% (83/150)
[OK] Aborted connections: 0.00%  (0/1810983)
[!!] name resolution is active : a reverse name resolution is made for each new connection and can reduce performance
[!!] Query cache may be disabled by default due to mutex contention.
[OK] Query cache efficiency: 43.7% (9M cached / 21M selects)
[OK] Query cache prunes per day: 0
[OK] Sorts requiring temporary tables: 0% (0 temp sorts / 245K sorts)
[!!] Joins performed without indexes: 513
[!!] Temporary tables created on disk: 72% (45K on disk / 62K total)
[OK] Thread cache hit rate: 99% (3K created / 1M connections)
[OK] Table cache hit rate: 37% (350 open / 928 opened)
[OK] table_definition_cache(400) is upper than number of tables(375)
[OK] Open file limit used: 1% (526/32K)
[OK] Table locks acquired immediately: 99% (10M immediate / 11M locks)
[OK] Binlog cache memory access: 100.00% (18402 Memory / 18402 Total)
 
-------- Performance schema ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] Memory used by P_S: 72B
[--] Sys schema isn't installed.
 
-------- ThreadPool Metrics ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] ThreadPool stat is enabled.
[--] Thread Pool Size: 2 thread(s).
[--] Using default value is good enough for your version (10.5.8-MariaDB-log)
 
-------- MyISAM Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[!!] Key buffer used: 40.7% (437M used / 1B cache)
[OK] Key buffer size / total MyISAM indexes: 1.0G/4.0G
[OK] Read Key buffer hit rate: 100.0% (809M cached / 259K reads)
[!!] Write Key buffer hit rate: 77.1% (58M cached / 44M writes)
 
-------- InnoDB Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] InnoDB is enabled.
[--] InnoDB Thread Concurrency: 0
[OK] InnoDB File per table is activated
[OK] InnoDB buffer pool / data size: 16.0M/3.5M
[!!] Ratio InnoDB log file size / InnoDB Buffer pool size (200 %): 32.0M * 1/16.0M should be equal to 25%
[--] Number of InnoDB Buffer Pool Chunk : 1 for 1 Buffer Pool Instance(s)
[OK] Innodb_buffer_pool_size aligned with Innodb_buffer_pool_chunk_size & Innodb_buffer_pool_instances
[OK] InnoDB Read buffer efficiency: 99.90% (507276 hits/ 507766 total)
[!!] InnoDB Write Log efficiency: 7109.49% (54672 hits/ 769 total)
[OK] InnoDB log waits: 0.00% (0 waits / 55441 writes)
 
-------- AriaDB Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] AriaDB is enabled.
[OK] Aria pagecache size / total Aria indexes: 128.0M/336.0K
[OK] Aria pagecache hit rate: 96.3% (1M cached / 45K reads)
 
-------- TokuDB Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] TokuDB is disabled.
 
-------- XtraDB Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] XtraDB is disabled.
 
-------- Galera Metrics ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] Galera is disabled.
 
-------- Replication Metrics -----------------------------------------------------------------------
[--] Galera Synchronous replication: NO
[--] This server is acting as master for 2 server(s).
[--] Binlog format: ROW
[--] XA support enabled: ON
[--] Semi synchronous replication Master: OFF
[--] Semi synchronous replication Slave: OFF
[--] No replication setup for this server or replication not started.
 
-------- Recommendations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Variables to adjust:
  *** MySQL's maximum memory usage is dangerously high ***
  *** Add RAM before increasing MySQL buffer variables ***
    query_cache_size (=0)
    query_cache_type (=0)
    join_buffer_size (> 16.0M, or always use indexes with JOINs)
    tmp_table_size (> 128M)
    max_heap_table_size (> 128M)
    innodb_log_file_size should be (=4M) if possible, so InnoDB total log files size equals to 25% of buffer pool size.

CONFIG

--port=3306 \
--slave-sql-verify-checksum=0 \
--user=wmysql \
--log-slave-updates=1 \
--slave-net-timeout=60 \
--wait_timeout=31536000 \
--interactive_timeout=31536000 \
--key-buffer-size=1024M \
--query_cache_size=64M \
--query-cache-limit=256000 \
--thread_cache_size=16 \
--table_open_cache=2000 \
--master-retry-count=120960 \
--max-connections=150  \
--max-allowed-packet=32M \
--open-files-limit=2048 \
--ft-min-word-len=2 \
--binlog-format=ROW \
--binlog_annotate_row_events=OFF \
--join_buffer_size=16M \
--sql-mode=NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION \
--character-set-server=utf8 \
--collation-server=utf8_general_ci \
--performance_schema=1 \
--tmp_table_size=128M \
--max_heap_table_size=128M \
--sync-binlog=0 \
--sync-relay-log=0 \
--sync-relay-log-info=0 \
--sync-master-info=0 \
--innodb_buffer_pool_size=16M \
--innodb_log_file_size=32M \
--innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit=2 \
--innodb-flush-neighbors=0 \
--innodb-flush-method=O_DIRECT \

SHOW GLOBAL STATUS

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  • Lower max_connections to 50. That may help avoid the crash for the time being. It does look like some queries could be improved -- perhaps via a composite index or reformulation.
    – Rick James
    Dec 17, 2020 at 8:12
  • Please post your SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES; output. Dec 17, 2020 at 18:14
  • @J22 You are an EARLY ADOPTER of 10.5.8 which became GA on 11 Nov 2020 - 40 days ago. If you will post your SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES; results, I will analyze your workload and try to salvage your present investment. Most people will not consider installing a new version for 90 days minimum to avoid becoming responsible for finding/reporting/waiting on corrective action for this Open Source offering. We all make mistakes and someone has to find them. Dec 17, 2020 at 18:50
  • here's the SHOW VARIABLES OUTPUT: pastebin.com/UzfuMh9s
    – J22
    Dec 17, 2020 at 20:42
  • @J22 Do you have any SSD or NVME for your data storage? From the Linux Command Prompt, please post results of ulimit -a for a list system limits. Dec 18, 2020 at 0:22

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After some work the the heap profiler I determined that our use INSERT DELAYED was causing the memory leak due to a MariaDB bug. Disabling use of INSERT DELAYED is an effective mitigation.

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  • I'm curious what was your use case for using insert delayed; would you mind explaining?
    – mustaccio
    Dec 18, 2020 at 22:00
  • @j22 Congratulations on finding the cause of the memory leak. Nice work. Dec 22, 2020 at 21:02
  • @J22 Please describe the change(s) used to disable INSERT DELAYED. Global Variables only? Thanks, Wilson Dec 23, 2020 at 10:27
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Rate Per Second = RPS

Suggestions to consider for your my.cnf [mysqld] section

log_error=master-server-name-error.log  # to document startup confirmation and later errors
REMOVE thread_cache_size to allow MariaDB default to be used and reduce threads_created
join_buffer_size=1M  # from 16M for this per connection RAM request
key_cache_age_threshold=7200  # from 300 seconds age out and reduce key_reads RPS of ~ 3
key_cache_division_limit=50  # from 100 for WARM/COLD cache
key_cache_block_size=16384  # to conserve CPU cycles for management of cache

There are several other areas needing tuning. For additional suggestions, view profile, Network profile for contact information and free downloadable Utility Scripts to assist with performance tuning. Happy Holidays. Stay Safe.

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  • @j22 Were these Suggestions of any value to you? Your perspective, better/worse performance? Jan 6, 2021 at 1:35

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