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Degraded database performance
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,34538_offset,0#408639
a good time to give systems a clean out
The good news is that over the past few days we have seen the back end server daemons catch up and work has been flowing steadily to the users.
The bad news is that a number of our backend processes that that read large numbers of records for reports or for large batch updates of information have been performing worse and worse. We have identified the continuing cause of this issue.
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,34538_offset,0#408639
As a result, we are going to have to take unusual action in order to clear out the undo log. Specifically, we are going to have to stop all access to the database, take a complete backup, delete the existing database, and then restore the database from backup. This is the process that we used when we migrated from MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.5. Unfortunately, we estimate that with the current database size, this outage could take up to 24 hours. I will be posting details about that outage shortly.
a good time to give systems a clean out