Formerly, the NDB kernel used a send buffer whose size was fixed at 2MB for every node in the cluster, which was allocated when the node started. Because the size of this buffer could not be changed after the cluster was started, it was necessary to make it large enough in advance to accomodate the maximum possible load on any transporter socket. However, this was an inefficient use of memory, since much of it often went unused, and could result in large amounts of resources being wasted when scaling up to many API nodes.
Beginning with MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0, this problem is solved by employing a unified send buffer whose memory is allocated dynamically from a pool shared by all transporters. This means that the size of the send buffer can be adjusted as necessary. Configuration of the unified send buffer can accomplished by setting the following parameters:
TotalSendBufferMemory
.
This parameter can be set for all types of MySQL Cluster
nodes — that is, it can be set in the
[ndbd]
, [mgm]
, and
[api]
(or [mysql]
)
sections of the config.ini
file. It
represents the total amount of memory (in bytes) to be
allocated by each node for which it is set for use among
all configured transporters. If set, its minimum is 256K;
the maximum is 4294967039.
In order to be backward-compatible with existing configurations, this parameter takes as its default value the sum of the maximum send buffer sizes of all configured transporters, plus an additional 32KB (one page) per transporter. The maximum depends on the type of transporter, as shown in the following table:
Transporter | Maxmimum Send Buffer Size (bytes) |
---|---|
TCP |
SendBufferMemory (default = 2M) |
SCI |
SendLimit (default = 8K) plus 16K |
SHM | 20K |
This allows existing configurations to function in close to the same way as they did with MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3 and earlier, with the same amount of memory and send buffer space available to each transporter. However, memory that is unused by one transporter is not available to other transporters.
OverloadLimit
.
This parameter is used in the
config.ini
file
[tcp]
section, and denotes the amount
of unsent data (in bytes) that must be present in the send
buffer before the connection is considered overloaded.
When such an overload condition occurs, transactions that
affect the overloaded connection fail with NDB API Error
1218 (Send Buffers overloaded in NDB
kernel) until the overload status passes. The
default value is 0, in which case the effective overload
limit is calculated as SendBufferMemory *
0.8
for a given connection. The maximum value
for this parameter is 4G.
SendBufferMemory
.
In MySQL Cluster NDB 6.3 and earlier, this TCP
configuration parameter represented the amount of memory
allocated at startup for each configured TCP connection.
Beginning with MySQL Cluster NDB 7.0, this value denotes a
hard limit for the amount of memory that may be used by a
single transporter out of the entire pool specified by
TotalSendBufferMemory
. However, the sum
of SendBufferMemory
for all configured
transporters may be greater than the
TotalSendBufferMemory
that is set for a
given node. This is a way to save memory when many nodes
are in use, as long as the maximum amount of memory is
never required by all transporters at the same time.
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