Tech:MariaDB

MariaDB is the chosen database software used in production. Currently we run 10.0.x on database servers.

MediaWiki
All wikis and some necessary databases (centralauth) are stored in MariaDB.

Phabricator
Phabricator database is stored on Tech:Db3.

Configuration
Database configuration is in puppet and managed automatically with restarts when new changes are made.

Freeing up space
On the database server you may run into a situation where there is only 10% space left, although the actual MariaDB data directory is not that big. In that case the server may be the victim of an issue where a large, deleted mysql-slow.log file is still kept open. Even while the file technically doesn't exist anymore, 'df -h' won't show it as free space.

root@db4:~# df -h Filesystem     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev            7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev tmpfs          1.6G  169M  1.5G  11% /run /dev/vda1      377G  267G   92G  75% / tmpfs          7.9G   16K  7.9G   1% /dev/shm tmpfs          5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock tmpfs          7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs          1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1009 tmpfs          1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1001 root@db4:~# lsof +L1 | grep mysql-slow mysqld 5550 mysql  413w   REG  254,1 10162498924     0 14680511 /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log.1 (deleted) In this example the deleted file is 10162498924 bytes (= +/- 10GB) big, and the server has 92GB left.

Take the pid (in this case '5550') and FD (in this case '413' - strip the letter 'w' from it). Then run the following command: root@db4:~# :>/proc/5550/fd/413 root@db4:~# df -h Filesystem     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev            7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev tmpfs          1.6G  169M  1.5G  11% /run /dev/vda1      377G  258G  101G  72% / tmpfs          7.9G   16K  7.9G   1% /dev/shm tmpfs          5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock tmpfs          7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs          1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1009 tmpfs          1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/1001

As you can see there is now 101GB available.

Double Processes
Sometimes mysql starts double processes that are not controlled by the sudo service mysql command.

This causes high load/high cpu.

To stop all processes owned by mysql do:

sudo killall -u mysql