What Do I Do If Replay Speed of Standby Nodes Cannot Catch Up with Write Speed of Primary Nodes?

Symptom

When workloads on a DB instance are heavy, the playback speed of standby nodes cannot catch up with write speed of primary nodes. After the system runs for a long time, logs are accumulated on the standby nodes. If a primary node is faulty, data restoration takes a long time and the database is unavailable, severely affecting system availability.

Solution

GaussDB provides ultimate RTO to minimize the data recovery time after a primary node is faulty and improve availability.

To use ultimate RTO, submit an application by choosing Service Tickets > Create Service Ticket in the upper right corner of the console.

Precautions

• Ultimate RTO focuses only on whether the RTO of standby nodes meets the requirements.
• Enabling ultimate RTO consumes CPU and memory resources of standby nodes.
• In 1.4 and earlier versions, flow control takes effect when ultimate RTO is enabled.
• Standby nodes do not support read operations after ultimate RTO is enabled. If you send read requests to a standby node, the standby node may fail to return the results.