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RE: Dropping distributions after upgrade

Posted By: Simmons, Keith
Date: Thursday, 12 June 2003, at 3:58 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Dropping distributions after upgrade (Obnoxio The Clown)

John

I think you are hitting a known bug:-

Bug 157747 UPDATE STATISTICS LOW WITH MANY DELETED BTREE ITEMS CAN CAUSE
SEVERE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION - resolved 7.31.UD6
After the upgrade update statistics had been run; not only did this take an
inordinate amount of time, this also resulted in more than 640,000 entries
on the btree cleaner queue (as seen by onstat -C). The result is that the
btree request queue becomes 'thrashed', and takes away so much power from
the engine, that it can make it unuseable. A workaround for this would be to
rebuild indexes which have a lot of deleted btree items.
It should be borne in mind that a major re-design of the btree cleaner has
been done in 9.40, and until that version the design issue persists, albeit
with a lesser impact.

OTC

Does your solution overcome/workaround this bug?

Anyone

Has this bug really been resolved in xD6 (my information was from Dec 2002
when UD5 was only a dream !!)

Keith

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Obnoxio The.... [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com]
-> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:36 AM
-> To: ids@iiug.org
-> Subject: Re: Dropping distributions after upgrade [1340]
->
->
-> export PDQPRIORITY 100
-> export DBUPSTATS 512000
-> export PSORT_NPROCS 4 # do know if this will help, but set
-> it anyway. :-)
-> export PSORT_DBTEMP /tmp1:/tmp2:/tmp3:/tmp4 # any 4 fast
-> filesystems with
-> bags of space
->
-> More below.
->
-> --
-> Bye now,
-> Obnoxio
->
-> "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien à dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule"
-> - Coluche
->
-> From: "John Bejarano " <jbejarano@sbcglobal.net>
-> >
-> >So, we're preparing to upgrade our HDR pair of
-> >production databases from IDS version 7.31.UD1XF to
-> >version 7.31.FD6, which by then will be running on
-> >Solaris 8 64-bit. This upgrade is rising in priority
-> >since we're starting to experience a bug whereby
-> >indexes get corrupted on the secondary server.
-> >
-> >The issue I'm most concerned with is that Informix
-> >recommends dropping the distributions and re-creating
-> >them after the upgrade. This database is over 450
-> >gigabytes in size. Some tables have hundreds of
-> >millions of rows, and many have over one million.
-> >
-> >Not only am I concerned with the amount of time it
-> >takes to actually re-create the statistics, (our
-> >current update statistics cycle runs over 12 hours and
-> >it uses 10 parallel update statistics processes to do
-> >it), but also the amount of time to drop the
-> >distributions in the first place as it must be done
-> >using "update statistics low drop distributions," and
-> >this fires off a giant index re-balancing. When we
-> >did this similar procedure on our smaller 45 gigabyte
-> >database it took several hours just to drop the
-> >distrbitions because of this.
->
-> Have you considered dropping the indexes before the upgrade?
-> Even just the
-> big ones. Then build them fresh using the parameters above.
-> I think you will
-> be pleasantly shocked, provided your tables are fragmented.
->
-> >In addition, we can't upgrade on one box, and then
-> >upgrade on the other because HDR requires the versions
-> >on each side to be the same.
->
-> Break the pair? But you're going to run into some things
-> that can't be done
-> in parallel along the way, so it's not going to help a lot.
->
-> >And, we can't run the
-> >update statistics on the secondary, because, well, you
-> >can't.
->
-> You can, but it does cause an awful lot of trouble and I
-> don't recommend it.
->
-> >This is our main production database, and I can't
-> >bring it down for 12-36 hours as our company will be
-> >out of business for that time. Nor would our website
-> >be very useful if it's up but queries don't work for
-> >hours and hours because there are no distributions.
-> >
-> >Surely we can't be the only large production Informix
-> >database that needs to upgrade our version once in a
-> >while. How can we perform this upgrade in a sensible
-> >way with as little downtime as possible? Or am I just
-> >screwed?
->
-> You are somewhat screwed, I think.
->
-> >Thanks for any insight you can lend.
-> >
-> >Kind regards,
-> >
-> >John Bejarano.
-> >
-> >
-> >
->
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