[slurm-users] Extreme long db upgrade 16.05.6 -> 17.11.3

Lech Nieroda lech.nieroda at uni-koeln.de
Tue Apr 2 12:56:00 UTC 2019


That’s probably it.
Sub-queries are known for potential performance issues, so one wonders why the devs didn’t extract it accordingly and made the code more robust or at least compatible with RHEL/CentOS 6 rather than including that remark in the release notes.



> Am 02.04.2019 um 07:20 schrieb Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel.org>:
> 
> On Monday, 1 April 2019 7:55:09 AM PDT Lech Nieroda wrote:
> 
>> Further analysis of the query has shown that the mysql optimizer has choosen
>> the wrong execution plan. This may depend on the mysql version, ours was
>> 5.1.69.
> 
> I suspect this is the issue documented in the release notes for 17.11:
> 
> https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/blob/slurm-17.11/RELEASE_NOTES
> 
> NOTE FOR THOSE UPGRADING SLURMDBD: The database conversion process from
>      SlurmDBD 16.05 or 17.02 may not work properly with MySQL 5.1 (as was the
>      default version for RHEL 6).  Upgrading to a newer version of MariaDB or
>      MySQL is strongly encouraged to prevent this problem.
> 
> -- 
>  Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Berkeley, CA, USA
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