[ovirt-devel] [ovirt-users] [Feture discussion] Full vacuum tool

Thu Dec 8 08:06:04 UTC 2016

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:56 PM, Eldad Marciano <emarcian at redhat.com> wrote:
> just forgot to mention that no customization required just plug & play he
> will collect a large set of informative data by deafult
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Eldad Marciano <emarcian at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> In terms of measuring I used pgclu couple of times and it powerfull,easy
>> to use, and provide very nice HTML reports
>> http://pgcluu.darold.net/
>>
>> And also provide autovacum analysis
>> http://pgcluu.darold.net/example/dolibarr-table-vacuums-analyzes.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Roy Golan <rgolan at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> On 7 December 2016 at 21:44, Roy Golan <rgolan at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> On 7 December 2016 at 21:00, Michal Skrivanek <mskrivan at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07 Dec 2016, at 11:28, Yaniv Kaul <ykaul at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Roy Golan <rgolan at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a discussion on the RFE[1] to provide a tool to perform full
>>>>>> vacuum on our DBs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First if you are not familiar with vacuum please read this [2]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # Backgroud
>>>>>> ovirt 'engine' DB have several busy table with 2 differnt usage
>>>>>> patten. One is audit_log and the others are the 'v*_statistics' tables and
>>>>>> the difference between them is mostly inserts vs mostly hot updates.
>>>>>> Tables with tons of updates creates garbage or 'dead' records that
>>>>>> should be removed, and for this postgres have the aforementioned autovacuum
>>>>>> cleaner. It will make the db reuse its already allocated space to perform
>>>>>> future updates/inserts and so on.
>>>>>> Autovacuum is essential for a db to function optimally and tweaking it
>>>>>> is out of the scope of the feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Full vacuum is designed to reclaim the disk space and reset the table
>>>>>> statistics. It is a heavy maintenance task, it takes an exclusive lock on
>>>>>> the table and may take seconds to minutes. In some situations it is
>>>>>> effectively a downtime due to the long table lock and should not be running
>>>>>> when the engine is running.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, effectively this should be interesting mostly/only for the audit
>>>>> log. All other busy table are mostly in-place updates
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Given that autovacuum is performing well the yes but if it starts to
>>>> fall behind this may help a bit.
>>>> audit_log is insert mostly and also delete, we remove a day, each day.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # Critiria
>>>>>> Provide a way to reclaim disk space claimed by the garbage created
>>>>>> over time by the engine db and dwh.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # Usage
>>>>>> Either use it as part of the upgrade procedure (after all dbscipts
>>>>>> execution)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That does sound as a good start not requiring much user involvement
>>>>>
>>>>>> or just provide the tool and admin will run in on demand
>>>>>> - engine db credentials read from /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d/
>>>>>> - invocation:
>>>>>>  ```
>>>>>>  tool: [dbname(default engine)] [table: (default all)]
>>>>>>  ```
>>>>>> - if we invoke it on upgrade than an installation plugin should be
>>>>>> added to invoke with default, no interaction
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> +1
>>>>>
>>>>>> - since VACUUM ANALYZE is consider a recommended maintenance task we
>>>>>> can to it by default and ask the user for FULL.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> When would you run it? ANALYZE nightly?
>>>>>
>>>> No I'd still avoid doing this repeatedly, autovaccum should handle that
>>>> as well, but this would cover situations where it isn't functioning
>>>> optimally.
>>>>
>>>> I think  its worth adding a report of the db status and the rate of the
>>>> autovacuum (a slight midifed version of the query mskrivanek ran on one of
>>>> the production systems [3])  that will go to the logcollector. Perhaps the
>>>> output of the ANALYZE will help as well.

I think that if possible, we should aim for automatic tuning of auto-vacuum.
Either by checking the logs for failures and give it e.g. more time, or by
checking analyze and deduce from that (if possible).

Another option is to disable autovacuum, and routinely run vacuum (not full
vacuum), but then always let it finish successfully before starting the next
run of it.

>>>>
>>>> [3]
>>>> https://gist.github.com/rgolangh/049cff30b89c5b29284ceee80a35dbb4#file-table_status_by_dead_rows-sql
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Very interesting collection of pg scrips to measure bloat and vacuum -
>>> needs access to postgres objects though
>>>
>>> - https://github.com/pgexperts/pgx_scripts
>>> -
>>> https://github.com/pgexperts/pgx_scripts/blob/master/bloat/table_bloat_check.sql
>>> -
>>> https://github.com/pgexperts/pgx_scripts/blob/master/vacuum/last_autovacuum.sql
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Will the user know to answer intelligently if vacuum is needed or not?
>>>>> Except for 'yes, you need it', we cannot even provide a time estimate (I
>>>>> assume a disk space estimate is available!)
>>>>
>>>> perhaps we can estimate the bloat, there should be a github script to
>>>> calculate that [4] not sure how good it is.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would suggest to run ANALYZE for sure and provide an option at the
>>>>> end of installation, to run the required command line - so make it as
>>>>> accessible as possible, but not part of the flow.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If there are no significant gains why bother any other time but on
>>>>> upgrade when it can be run unconditionally?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm wondering if the community can run ANALYZE on their database, and
>>>>> we can estimate how many are in dire need for full vacuum already.
>>>>> Y.
>>>>
>>>> I'll send a different mail for that.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> - remote db is supported as well, doesn't have to be local
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, not sure if we need to bother. It was introduced for large
>>>>> deployments where the host can't fit both engine and db load. Do we still
>>>>> have this issue? I wouldn't say so for 4.1. It may be very niche case
>>>>>
>>>> Running full vacuum is anyway a psql command, so there is no hidden cost
>>>> here (to the development side I mean)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> michal
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # Questions
>>>>>>  - Will remote dwh have the credentials under
>>>>>> /etc/ovirt-engine/engine.conf.d?
>>>>>>  - Should  AAA schema be taken into account as well?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please review, thanks
>>>>>> Roy
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388430
>>>>>> [2]
>>>>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/runtime-config-autovacuum.html
>>>>>> [3] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/sql-vacuum.html
>>>>>>
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