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<refentry id="ctdb-tunables.7">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ctdb-tunables</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="source">ctdb</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="manual">CTDB - clustered TDB database</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>ctdb-tunables</refname>
<refpurpose>CTDB tunable configuration variables</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1>
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
CTDB's behaviour can be configured by setting run-time tunable
variables. This lists and describes all tunables. See the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ctdb</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
<command>listvars</command>, <command>setvar</command> and
<command>getvar</command> commands for more details.
</para>
<para>
Unless otherwise stated, tunables should be set to the same
value on all nodes. Setting tunables to different values across
nodes may produce unexpected results. Future releases may set
(some or most) tunables globally across the cluster but doing so
is currently a manual process.
</para>
<para>
Tunables can be set at startup from the
<filename>/usr/local/etc/ctdb/ctdb.tunables</filename>
configuration file.
<literallayout>
<replaceable>TUNABLE</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable>
</literallayout>
</para>
<para>
For example:
<screen format="linespecific">
MonitorInterval=20
</screen>
</para>
<para>
The available tunable variables are listed alphabetically below.
</para>
<refsect2>
<title>AllowClientDBAttach</title>
<para>Default: 1</para>
<para>
When set to 0, clients are not allowed to attach to any databases.
This can be used to temporarily block any new processes from
attaching to and accessing the databases. This is mainly used
for detaching a volatile database using 'ctdb detach'.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>AllowMixedVersions</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
CTDB will not allow incompatible versions to co-exist in
a cluster. If a version mismatch is found, then losing CTDB
will shutdown. To disable the incompatible version check,
set this tunable to 1.
</para>
<para>
For version checking, CTDB uses major and minor version.
For example, CTDB 4.6.1 and CTDB CTDB 4.6.2 are matching versions;
CTDB 4.5.x and CTDB 4.6.y do not match.
</para>
<para>
CTDB with version check support will lose to CTDB without
version check support. Between two different CTDB versions with
version check support, one running for less time will lose.
If the running time for both CTDB versions with version check
support is equal (to seconds), then the older version will lose.
The losing CTDB daemon will shutdown.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>AllowUnhealthyDBRead</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
When set to 1, ctdb allows database traverses to read unhealthy
databases. By default, ctdb does not allow reading records from
unhealthy databases.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>ControlTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 60</para>
<para>
This is the default setting for timeout for when sending a
control message to either the local or a remote ctdb daemon.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>DatabaseHashSize</title>
<para>Default: 100001</para>
<para>
Number of the hash chains for the local store of the tdbs that
ctdb manages.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>DatabaseMaxDead</title>
<para>Default: 5</para>
<para>
Maximum number of dead records per hash chain for the tdb databses
managed by ctdb.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>DBRecordCountWarn</title>
<para>Default: 100000</para>
<para>
When set to non-zero, ctdb will log a warning during recovery if
a database has more than this many records. This will produce a
warning if a database grows uncontrollably with orphaned records.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>DBRecordSizeWarn</title>
<para>Default: 10000000</para>
<para>
When set to non-zero, ctdb will log a warning during recovery
if a single record is bigger than this size. This will produce
a warning if a database record grows uncontrollably.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>DBSizeWarn</title>
<para>Default: 1000000000</para>
<para>
When set to non-zero, ctdb will log a warning during recovery if
a database size is bigger than this. This will produce a warning
if a database grows uncontrollably.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>DeferredAttachTO</title>
<para>Default: 120</para>
<para>
When databases are frozen we do not allow clients to attach to
the databases. Instead of returning an error immediately to the
client, the attach request from the client is deferred until
the database becomes available again at which stage we respond
to the client.
</para>
<para>
This timeout controls how long we will defer the request from the
client before timing it out and returning an error to the client.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>DisableIPFailover</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
When set to non-zero, ctdb will not perform failover or
failback. Even if a node fails while holding public IPs, ctdb
will not recover the IPs or assign them to another node.
</para>
<para>
When this tunable is enabled, ctdb will no longer attempt
to recover the cluster by failing IP addresses over to other
nodes. This leads to a service outage until the administrator
has manually performed IP failover to replacement nodes using the
'ctdb moveip' command.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>ElectionTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 3</para>
<para>
The number of seconds to wait for the election of recovery
master to complete. If the election is not completed during this
interval, then that round of election fails and ctdb starts a
new election.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>EnableBans</title>
<para>Default: 1</para>
<para>
This parameter allows ctdb to ban a node if the node is misbehaving.
</para>
<para>
When set to 0, this disables banning completely in the cluster
and thus nodes can not get banned, even it they break. Don't
set to 0 unless you know what you are doing.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>EventScriptTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 30</para>
<para>
Maximum time in seconds to allow an event to run before timing
out. This is the total time for all enabled scripts that are
run for an event, not just a single event script.
</para>
<para>
Note that timeouts are ignored for some events ("takeip",
"releaseip", "startrecovery", "recovered") and converted to
success. The logic here is that the callers of these events
implement their own additional timeout.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>FetchCollapse</title>
<para>Default: 1</para>
<para>
This parameter is used to avoid multiple migration requests for
the same record from a single node. All the record requests for
the same record are queued up and processed when the record is
migrated to the current node.
</para>
<para>
When many clients across many nodes try to access the same record
at the same time this can lead to a fetch storm where the record
becomes very active and bounces between nodes very fast. This
leads to high CPU utilization of the ctdbd daemon, trying to
bounce that record around very fast, and poor performance.
This can improve performance and reduce CPU utilization for
certain workloads.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>HopcountMakeSticky</title>
<para>Default: 50</para>
<para>
For database(s) marked STICKY (using 'ctdb setdbsticky'),
any record that is migrating so fast that hopcount
exceeds this limit is marked as STICKY record for
<varname>StickyDuration</varname> seconds. This means that
after each migration the sticky record will be kept on the node
<varname>StickyPindown</varname>milliseconds and prevented from
being migrated off the node.
</para>
<para>
This will improve performance for certain workloads, such as
locking.tdb if many clients are opening/closing the same file
concurrently.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>IPAllocAlgorithm</title>
<para>Default: 2</para>
<para>
Selects the algorithm that CTDB should use when doing public
IP address allocation. Meaningful values are:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>0</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Deterministic IP address allocation.
</para>
<para>
This is a simple and fast option. However, it can cause
unnecessary address movement during fail-over because
each address has a "home" node. Works badly when some
nodes do not have any addresses defined. Should be used
with care when addresses are defined across multiple
networks.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>1</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Non-deterministic IP address allocation.
</para>
<para>
This is a relatively fast option that attempts to do a
minimise unnecessary address movements. Addresses do
not have a "home" node. Rebalancing is limited but it
usually adequate. Works badly when addresses are
defined across multiple networks.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>2</term>
<listitem>
<para>
LCP2 IP address allocation.
</para>
<para>
Uses a heuristic to assign addresses defined across
multiple networks, usually balancing addresses on each
network evenly across nodes. Addresses do not have a
"home" node. Minimises unnecessary address movements.
The algorithm is complex, so is slower than other
choices for a large number of addresses. However, it
can calculate an optimal assignment of 900 addresses in
under 10 seconds on modern hardware.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>
If the specified value is not one of these then the default
will be used.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>KeepaliveInterval</title>
<para>Default: 5</para>
<para>
How often in seconds should the nodes send keep-alive packets to
each other.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>KeepaliveLimit</title>
<para>Default: 5</para>
<para>
After how many keepalive intervals without any traffic should
a node wait until marking the peer as DISCONNECTED.
</para>
<para>
If a node has hung, it can take
<varname>KeepaliveInterval</varname> *
(<varname>KeepaliveLimit</varname> + 1) seconds before
ctdb determines that the node is DISCONNECTED and performs
a recovery. This limit should not be set too high to enable
early detection and avoid any application timeouts (e.g. SMB1)
to kick in before the fail over is completed.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>LockProcessesPerDB</title>
<para>Default: 200</para>
<para>
This is the maximum number of lock helper processes ctdb will
create for obtaining record locks. When ctdb cannot get a record
lock without blocking, it creates a helper process that waits
for the lock to be obtained.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>LogLatencyMs</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
When set to non-zero, ctdb will log if certains operations
take longer than this value, in milliseconds, to complete.
These operations include "process a record request from client",
"take a record or database lock", "update a persistent database
record" and "vaccum a database".
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>MaxQueueDropMsg</title>
<para>Default: 1000000</para>
<para>
This is the maximum number of messages to be queued up for
a client before ctdb will treat the client as hung and will
terminate the client connection.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>MonitorInterval</title>
<para>Default: 15</para>
<para>
How often should ctdb run the 'monitor' event in seconds to check
for a node's health.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>MonitorTimeoutCount</title>
<para>Default: 20</para>
<para>
How many 'monitor' events in a row need to timeout before a node
is flagged as UNHEALTHY. This setting is useful if scripts can
not be written so that they do not hang for benign reasons.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>NoIPFailback</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
When set to 1, ctdb will not perform failback of IP addresses
when a node becomes healthy. When a node becomes UNHEALTHY,
ctdb WILL perform failover of public IP addresses, but when the
node becomes HEALTHY again, ctdb will not fail the addresses back.
</para>
<para>
Use with caution! Normally when a node becomes available to the
cluster ctdb will try to reassign public IP addresses onto the
new node as a way to distribute the workload evenly across the
clusternode. Ctdb tries to make sure that all running nodes have
approximately the same number of public addresses it hosts.
</para>
<para>
When you enable this tunable, ctdb will no longer attempt to
rebalance the cluster by failing IP addresses back to the new
nodes. An unbalanced cluster will therefore remain unbalanced
until there is manual intervention from the administrator. When
this parameter is set, you can manually fail public IP addresses
over to the new node(s) using the 'ctdb moveip' command.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>NoIPHostOnAllDisabled</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
If no nodes are HEALTHY then by default ctdb will happily host
public IPs on disabled (unhealthy or administratively disabled)
nodes. This can cause problems, for example if the underlying
cluster filesystem is not mounted. When set to 1 and a node
is disabled, any IPs hosted by this node will be released and
the node will not takeover any IPs until it is no longer disabled.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>NoIPTakeover</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
When set to 1, ctdb will not allow IP addresses to be failed
over to other nodes. Any IP addresses already hosted on
healthy nodes will remain. Usually IP addresses hosted on
unhealthy nodes will also remain, if NoIPHostOnAllDisabled is
0. However, if NoIPHostOnAllDisabled is 1 then IP addresses
will be released by unhealthy nodes and will become un-hosted.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>PullDBPreallocation</title>
<para>Default: 10*1024*1024</para>
<para>
This is the size of a record buffer to pre-allocate for sending
reply to PULLDB control. Usually record buffer starts with size
of the first record and gets reallocated every time a new record
is added to the record buffer. For a large number of records,
this can be very inefficient to grow the record buffer one record
at a time.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>QueueBufferSize</title>
<para>Default: 1024</para>
<para>
This is the maximum amount of data (in bytes) ctdb will read
from a socket at a time.
</para>
<para>
For a busy setup, if ctdb is not able to process the TCP sockets
fast enough (large amount of data in Recv-Q for tcp sockets),
then this tunable value should be increased. However, large
values can keep ctdb busy processing packets and prevent ctdb
from handling other events.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecBufferSizeLimit</title>
<para>Default: 1000000</para>
<para>
This is the limit on the size of the record buffer to be sent
in various controls. This limit is used by new controls used
for recovery and controls used in vacuuming.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecdFailCount</title>
<para>Default: 10</para>
<para>
If the recovery daemon has failed to ping the main dameon for
this many consecutive intervals, the main daemon will consider
the recovery daemon as hung and will try to restart it to recover.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecdPingTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 60</para>
<para>
If the main dameon has not heard a "ping" from the recovery dameon
for this many seconds, the main dameon will log a message that
the recovery daemon is potentially hung. This also increments a
counter which is checked against <varname>RecdFailCount</varname>
for detection of hung recovery daemon.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecLockLatencyMs</title>
<para>Default: 1000</para>
<para>
When using a reclock file for split brain prevention, if set
to non-zero this tunable will make the recovery dameon log a
message if the fcntl() call to lock/testlock the recovery file
takes longer than this number of milliseconds.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecoverInterval</title>
<para>Default: 1</para>
<para>
How frequently in seconds should the recovery daemon perform the
consistency checks to determine if it should perform a recovery.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecoverTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 120</para>
<para>
This is the default setting for timeouts for controls when sent
from the recovery daemon. We allow longer control timeouts from
the recovery daemon than from normal use since the recovery
dameon often use controls that can take a lot longer than normal
controls.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecoveryBanPeriod</title>
<para>Default: 300</para>
<para>
The duration in seconds for which a node is banned if the node
fails during recovery. After this time has elapsed the node will
automatically get unbanned and will attempt to rejoin the cluster.
</para>
<para>
A node usually gets banned due to real problems with the node.
Don't set this value too small. Otherwise, a problematic node
will try to re-join cluster too soon causing unnecessary recoveries.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecoveryDropAllIPs</title>
<para>Default: 120</para>
<para>
If a node is stuck in recovery, or stopped, or banned, for this
many seconds, then ctdb will release all public addresses on
that node.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RecoveryGracePeriod</title>
<para>Default: 120</para>
<para>
During recoveries, if a node has not caused recovery failures
during the last grace period in seconds, any records of
transgressions that the node has caused recovery failures will be
forgiven. This resets the ban-counter back to zero for that node.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RepackLimit</title>
<para>Default: 10000</para>
<para>
During vacuuming, if the number of freelist records are more than
<varname>RepackLimit</varname>, then the database is repacked
to get rid of the freelist records to avoid fragmentation.
</para>
<para>
Databases are repacked only if both <varname>RepackLimit</varname>
and <varname>VacuumLimit</varname> are exceeded.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>RerecoveryTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 10</para>
<para>
Once a recovery has completed, no additional recoveries are
permitted until this timeout in seconds has expired.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>SeqnumInterval</title>
<para>Default: 1000</para>
<para>
Some databases have seqnum tracking enabled, so that samba will
be able to detect asynchronously when there has been updates
to the database. Every time a database is updated its sequence
number is increased.
</para>
<para>
This tunable is used to specify in milliseconds how frequently
ctdb will send out updates to remote nodes to inform them that
the sequence number is increased.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>StatHistoryInterval</title>
<para>Default: 1</para>
<para>
Granularity of the statistics collected in the statistics
history. This is reported by 'ctdb stats' command.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>StickyDuration</title>
<para>Default: 600</para>
<para>
Once a record has been marked STICKY, this is the duration in
seconds, the record will be flagged as a STICKY record.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>StickyPindown</title>
<para>Default: 200</para>
<para>
Once a STICKY record has been migrated onto a node, it will be
pinned down on that node for this number of milliseconds. Any
request from other nodes to migrate the record off the node will
be deferred.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>TakeoverTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 9</para>
<para>
This is the duration in seconds in which ctdb tries to complete IP
failover.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>TDBMutexEnabled</title>
<para>Default: 1</para>
<para>
This parameter enables TDB_MUTEX_LOCKING feature on volatile
databases if the robust mutexes are supported. This optimizes the
record locking using robust mutexes and is much more efficient
that using posix locks.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>TickleUpdateInterval</title>
<para>Default: 20</para>
<para>
Every <varname>TickleUpdateInterval</varname> seconds, ctdb
synchronizes the client connection information across nodes.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>TraverseTimeout</title>
<para>Default: 20</para>
<para>
This is the duration in seconds for which a database traverse
is allowed to run. If the traverse does not complete during
this interval, ctdb will abort the traverse.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>VacuumFastPathCount</title>
<para>Default: 60</para>
<para>
During a vacuuming run, ctdb usually processes only the records
marked for deletion also called the fast path vacuuming. After
finishing <varname>VacuumFastPathCount</varname> number of fast
path vacuuming runs, ctdb will trigger a scan of complete database
for any empty records that need to be deleted.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>VacuumInterval</title>
<para>Default: 10</para>
<para>
Periodic interval in seconds when vacuuming is triggered for
volatile databases.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>VacuumLimit</title>
<para>Default: 5000</para>
<para>
During vacuuming, if the number of deleted records are more than
<varname>VacuumLimit</varname>, then databases are repacked to
avoid fragmentation.
</para>
<para>
Databases are repacked only if both <varname>RepackLimit</varname>
and <varname>VacuumLimit</varname> are exceeded.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>VacuumMaxRunTime</title>
<para>Default: 120</para>
<para>
The maximum time in seconds for which the vacuuming process is
allowed to run. If vacuuming process takes longer than this
value, then the vacuuming process is terminated.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>VerboseMemoryNames</title>
<para>Default: 0</para>
<para>
When set to non-zero, ctdb assigns verbose names for some of
the talloc allocated memory objects. These names are visible
in the talloc memory report generated by 'ctdb dumpmemory'.
</para>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>FILES></title>
<simplelist>
<member><filename>/usr/local/etc/ctdb/ctdb.tunables</filename></member>
</simplelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ctdb</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ctdbd</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ctdbd.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ctdb</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<ulink url="http://ctdb.samba.org/"/>
</para>
</refsect1>
<refentryinfo>
<author>
<contrib>
This documentation was written by
Ronnie Sahlberg,
Amitay Isaacs,
Martin Schwenke
</contrib>
</author>
<copyright>
<year>2007</year>
<holder>Andrew Tridgell</holder>
<holder>Ronnie Sahlberg</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
</para>
<para>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
</para>
<para>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if not, see
<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses"/>.
</para>
</legalnotice>
</refentryinfo>
</refentry>