Help Needed: When Running a Batch Job on Upstream MySQL, All TiKV IO on Downstream TiDB Spikes

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Original topic: 求助:上游MySQL一跑批,下游TiDB所有tikv IO就飙高

| username: Hacker_小峰

[TiDB Usage Environment] Production Environment
[TiDB Version] v5.4.3
[Reproduction Path] Operations performed that led to the issue
[Encountered Issue: Problem Phenomenon and Impact] The upstream MySQL cluster is synchronized to a downstream small TiDB cluster via DM, with TiDB mainly used for OLAP queries. At the end of the month, when the upstream MySQL runs a batch process, all TiKV nodes in the downstream TiDB cluster start experiencing IO bottlenecks.
The situation is as follows:







The table structure involved is as follows:

CREATE TABLE `t1` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT COMMENT 'Auto-increment primary key',
  `aid` varchar(64) NOT NULL COMMENT 'aid',
  `order_no` varchar(64) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Original order number',
  `p_code` varchar(64) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Primary label',
  `tag_code` varchar(64) NOT NULL COMMENT 'Label code',
  `created_by` varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Created by',
  `updated_by` varchar(45) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Updated by',
  `created_time` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP COMMENT 'Creation time',
  `updated_time` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP COMMENT 'Update time',
  `is_default` tinyint(4) DEFAULT '0' COMMENT 'Is default enum, 1-yes',
  `effective_date` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Effective date',
  `expire_date` timestamp NULL DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Expiration date',
  `remark` varchar(512) DEFAULT NULL COMMENT 'Remark',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `idx_aid_p_code` (`aid`,`p_code`),
  KEY `idx_order_no` (`order_no`),
  KEY `idx_tag_code` (`tag_code`),
  KEY `idx_p_code` (`p_code`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

The main TiDB cluster parameters are:

server_configs:
  tidb:
    log.level: info
    log.slow-threshold: 300
    mem-quota-query: 10737418240
    performance.txn-entry-size-limit: 125829120
    performance.txn-total-size-limit: 10737418240
    prepared-plan-cache.enabled: true
  tikv:
    raftstore.apply-pool-size: 8
    raftstore.messages-per-tick: 4096
    raftstore.raft-max-inflight-msgs: 2048
    raftstore.store-pool-size: 5
    raftstore.sync-log: false
    readpool.coprocessor.use-unified-pool: true
    readpool.storage.use-unified-pool: true
    readpool.unified.max-thread-count: 12
    rocksdb.defaultcf.force-consistency-checks: false
    rocksdb.lockcf.force-consistency-checks: false
    rocksdb.max-background-jobs: 3
    rocksdb.max-sub-compactions: 2
    rocksdb.raftcf.force-consistency-checks: false
    rocksdb.writecf.force-consistency-checks: false
    server.grpc-concurrency: 8
    storage.block-cache.capacity: 32GB
    storage.block-cache.shared: true

The table synchronized from MySQL to the TiDB cluster has an auto-increment primary key ID and three auxiliary indexes, all of which are incremental attributes. When the upstream MySQL performs batch writes, the downstream TiKV IO spikes. How can this situation be handled better? :heart:

| username: 小龙虾爱大龙虾 | Original post link

You don’t need to look at the IO Util metric for SSDs. Just pay attention to the disk response time, IOPS, and whether the throughput has reached its bottleneck.

| username: 我是吉米哥 | Original post link

Check the disk read/write latency. If the latency exceeds 10ms, it indicates that the disk is a bit slow.

| username: Hacker_小峰 | Original post link

Oh, the response time has increased, but it’s within an acceptable range. Thanks!

| username: Hacker_小峰 | Original post link

TiDB Duration 99th percentile is usually around 4ms, but when there is a tikv IO alert, the Duration 99th percentile goes up to 20.9ms. The disk is SATA SSD. Currently, this duration is acceptable for the business. It seems that IO utilization is quite sufficient, but receiving alerts is still worrisome. :rofl:
Thank you!

| username: zhaokede | Original post link

M.2 solid-state drives offer better performance.