Bug #8957 MySQL service crash without errors
Submitted: 4 Mar 2005 21:23 Modified: 28 Mar 2014 11:26
Reporter: Franco Biaggi Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:Connector / J Severity:S1 (Critical)
Version:3.1.6-7 OS:Windows (Win2Kserver)
Assigned to: Alexander Soklakov CPU Architecture:Any

[4 Mar 2005 21:23] Franco Biaggi
Description:
Hello,

first, not able to reproduce on other systems (XP, Win2000, Win2003) in a standalone environment...

I try to explain the problem, sorry for my bad english...

Environment:
- WinServer 2000 (but this is not the problem, see after)
- JDK 1.5.1_01
- MySQL 4.1.10
- InnoDB cache ist set to 1024M
- JDBC Connector 3.1.6
- IBM Xserver with 2 xeon processors and 2gb of memory (dedicated to MySQL and JBoss)

- MySQL InnoDB large tables with 4-6 millions of records (lbdata1 is more than 8gb)
- Some MyIsam Tables with max 500 records.
- Several indexes on a large table (index size larger than the data size)

The problem is very simple,
- In some cases (frequent) when the memory reach and go over the InnoDB cache the service crash without errors
- This seem to appear ONLY using the JDBC driver 3.1.6/7, high operations from the MySQL shell to the DB do not produce the problem in a "standalone" environment
- The problem seem do not appear accessing from a "single client (JDBC)" that access the entire database (Searches with like %...%", more times), the memory used remain stable, about 1gb.

- Going back to the JDBC driver 3.0.16 solves the problem

Executed tests:
- Standalone or with little users tests on XP, W2KServer, W2003Server seem to work
- Moved the DB and MySQL to a simple XP System
- Tested with MyJDBC 3.0.16 work fine 
- Tested with MyJDBC 3.1.6 crash after the MemUsage go over the VMSize memory
- Tryed with ather InnoDB cache size but without good results

My.ini file:

# MySQL Server Instance Configuration File
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Generated by the MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard
#
#
# Installation Instructions
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# On Linux you can copy this file to /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options
# (@localstatedir@ for this installation) or to
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# On Windows you should keep this file in the installation directory 
# of your server (e.g. C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1). To
# make sure the server reads the config file use the startup option 
# "--defaults-file". 
#
# To run run the server from the command line, execute this in a 
# command line shell, e.g.
# mysqld --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini"
#
# To install the server as a Windows service manually, execute this in a 
# command line shell, e.g.
# mysqld --install MySQL41 --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\my.ini"
#
# And then execute this in a command line shell to start the server, e.g.
# net start MySQL41
#
#
# Guildlines for editing this file
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that the program supports.
# If you want to know the options a program supports, start the program
# with the "--help" option.
#
# More detailed information about the individual options can also be
# found in the manual.
#
#
# CLIENT SECTION
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# The following options will be read by MySQL client applications.
# Note that only client applications shipped by MySQL are guaranteed
# to read this section. If you want your own MySQL client program to
# honor these values, you need to specify it as an option during the
# MySQL client library initialization.
#
[client]

port=3306

# SERVER SECTION
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# The following options will be read by the MySQL Server. Make sure that
# you have installed the server correctly (see above) so it reads this 
# file.
#
[mysqld]

# The TCP/IP Port the MySQL Server will listen on
port=3306

#Path to installation directory. All paths are usually resolved relative to this.
basedir=c:/mysql/

#Path to the database root
datadir=c:/mysql/Data/

# The default character set that will be used when a new schema or table is
# created and no character set is defined
default-character-set=latin1

# The default storage engine that will be used when create new tables when
default-storage-engine=INNODB

# The maximum amount of concurrent sessions the MySQL server will
# allow. One of these connections will be reserved for a user with
# SUPER privileges to allow the administrator to login even if the
# connection limit has been reached.
max_connections=100

# Query cache is used to cache SELECT results and later return them
# without actual executing the same query once again. Having the query
# cache enabled may result in significant speed improvements, if your
# have a lot of identical queries and rarely changing tables. See the
# "Qcache_lowmem_prunes" status variable to check if the current value
# is high enough for your load.
# Note: In case your tables change very often or if your queries are
# textually different every time, the query cache may result in a
# slowdown instead of a performance improvement.
query_cache_size=0

# The number of open tables for all threads. Increasing this value
# increases the number of file descriptors that mysqld requires.
# Therefore you have to make sure to set the amount of open files
# allowed to at least 4096 in the variable "open-files-limit" in
# section [mysqld_safe]
table_cache=256

# Maximum size for internal (in-memory) temporary tables. If a table
# grows larger than this value, it is automatically converted to disk
# based table This limitation is for a single table. There can be many
# of them.
tmp_table_size=18M

# How many threads we should keep in a cache for reuse. When a client
# disconnects, the client's threads are put in the cache if there aren't
# more than thread_cache_size threads from before.  This greatly reduces
# the amount of thread creations needed if you have a lot of new
# connections. (Normally this doesn't give a notable performance
# improvement if you have a good thread implementation.)
#(Unknown option:)thread_cache=8

#*** MyISAM Specific options

# The maximum size of the temporary file MySQL is allowed to use while
# recreating the index (during REPAIR, ALTER TABLE or LOAD DATA INFILE.
# If the file-size would be bigger than this, the index will be created
# through the key cache (which is slower).
myisam_max_sort_file_size=10G

# If the temporary file used for fast index creation would be bigger
# than using the key cache by the amount specified here, then prefer the
# key cache method.  This is mainly used to force long character keys in
# large tables to use the slower key cache method to create the index.
myisam_max_extra_sort_file_size=10G

# If the temporary file used for fast index creation would be bigger
# than using the key cache by the amount specified here, then prefer the
# key cache method.  This is mainly used to force long character keys in
# large tables to use the slower key cache method to create the index.
myisam_sort_buffer_size=35M

# Size of the Key Buffer, used to cache index blocks for MyISAM tables.
# Do not set it larger than 30% of your available memory, as some memory
# is also required by the OS to cache rows. Even if you're not using
# MyISAM tables, you should still set it to 8-64M as it will also be
# used for internal temporary disk tables.
key_buffer_size=25M

# Size of the buffer used for doing full table scans of MyISAM tables.
# Allocated per thread, if a full scan is needed.
read_buffer_size=64K
read_rnd_buffer_size=256K

# This buffer is allocated when MySQL needs to rebuild the index in
# REPAIR, OPTIMZE, ALTER table statements as well as in LOAD DATA INFILE
# into an empty table. It is allocated per thread so be careful with
# large settings.
sort_buffer_size=16M

#*** INNODB Specific options ***

# Use this option if you have a MySQL server with InnoDB support enabled
# but you do not plan to use it. This will save memory and disk space
# and speed up some things.
#skip-innodb

# Additional memory pool that is used by InnoDB to store metadata
# information.  If InnoDB requires more memory for this purpose it will
# start to allocate it from the OS.  As this is fast enough on most
# recent operating systems, you normally do not need to change this
# value. SHOW INNODB STATUS will display the current amount used.
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M

# If set to 1, InnoDB will flush (fsync) the transaction logs to the
# disk at each commit, which offers full ACID behavior. If you are
# willing to compromise this safety, and you are running small
# transactions, you may set this to 0 or 2 to reduce disk I/O to the
# logs. Value 0 means that the log is only written to the log file and
# the log file flushed to disk approximately once per second. Value 2
# means the log is written to the log file at each commit, but the log
# file is only flushed to disk approximately once per second.
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1

# The size of the buffer InnoDB uses for buffering log data. As soon as
# it is full, InnoDB will have to flush it to disk. As it is flushed
# once per second anyway, it does not make sense to have it very large
# (even with long transactions).
innodb_log_buffer_size=2M

# InnoDB, unlike MyISAM, uses a buffer pool to cache both indexes and
# row data. The bigger you set this the less disk I/O is needed to
# access data in tables. On a dedicated database server you may set this
# parameter up to 80% of the machine physical memory size. Do not set it
# too large, though, because competition of the physical memory may
# cause paging in the operating system.  Note that on 32bit systems you
# might be limited to 2-3.5G of user level memory per process, so do not
# set it too high.
innodb_buffer_pool_size=1024M

# Size of each log file in a log group. You should set the combined size
# of log files to about 25%-100% of your buffer pool size to avoid
# unneeded buffer pool flush activity on log file overwrite. However,
# note that a larger logfile size will increase the time needed for the
# recovery process.
innodb_log_file_size=256M

# Number of threads allowed inside the InnoDB kernel. The optimal value
# depends highly on the application, hardware as well as the OS
# scheduler properties. A too high value may lead to thread thrashing.
innodb_thread_concurrency=16

JBoss DS:

<datasources>
  <local-tx-datasource>
    <jndi-name>sisaejb</jndi-name>
    <connection-url>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sisaejb?autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=latin1</connection-url>
    <driver-class>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
    <!-- <driver-class>com.p6spy.engine.spy.P6SpyDriver</driver-class> -->
    <user-name></user-name>
    <password></password>
    <connection-property name="autoReconnect">true</connection-property>
    <entity-command name="no-select-before-insert"/>
    <prepared-statement-cache-size>1000</prepared-statement-cache-size>
   <max-pool-size>200</max-pool-size>
   </local-tx-datasource>

</datasources>

Thanks for a reply

How to repeat:
???
[14 Mar 2005 17:13] Mark Matthews
Does the problem go away with 3.1.x if you add 'useServerPrepStmts=false' to your JDBC url? (trying to see if this is related to server-side prepared statements).
[14 Mar 2005 17:37] Franco Biaggi
Mark,

thanks for the answer,
it is hard to try, due to the productive environment (as say cannot reproduce easly outside of the productive env.).

But if I good remember, the number of cached prepared statements shown by MyAdmin was 0.

I try it.
[16 Mar 2005 18:50] Franco Biaggi
Mark,

after setting 'useServerPrepStmts=false' seem to work (3 hours without crash).

Could please explain where are the prepared statements used or not  by this option:
- on JBoss ?
- on MySQL ?
- on your JDBC driver ?

Thanks in advance for a reply.
[16 Apr 2005 23:00] Bugs System
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
[28 Mar 2014 11:26] Alexander Soklakov
Fixed in 3.1.8