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· Jun 1, 2021

Mirroring Ensemble service information

#Interoperability #Ensemble

I have some system with heavy production. There are about 500GB of journals daily. And I'm looking at the ways, how to decrease the amount of data that appeared there.

I found no way, on how to split have the journal separately for mirroring databases and for others. So, I'm thinking about moving some of the globals to CACHETEMP. So, they will disappear from journals. So, thinking about Ens.* globals, I have about 30% of data in journals just for such data. Which production data can be safely moved to CACHETEMP, with no issues for mirroring?

Or, maybe you have some other suggestions, how to focus journaling more on important data.

Product version: Caché 2017.1
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Yaron Munz · Jun 2, 2021

There are few considerations here:

1. If you are using a failover (sync) mirror, you will need to that Ens.* data on the backup so a switch can be done seamlessly, and Ensemble production can start from the exact same point when failure occurred.

2. mapping any globals into a non-journal database will still have them on the journal when the process is "in transaction". Ensemble production is writing everything "in-transaction"

3. Mapping Ens.* to another DB is good idea if you have several disks, and you want to improve I/O on your system (specifically within cloud VMs that usually have a bit slower disks than on-premise). Another option is to let the system purge Ensemble data regularly and maybe keep less days of history.

4. Mirror journals are regularly being purged after all sync/a-sync mirror members got them.

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Marcio Dias · Jul 28, 2021

Hello,

I had similar issues with journal size. Like you case, it grew a lot during the day and the Ensemble only cleaned at the end of the day. It could reach over 300Gb, but the disk had that amount of space available. Depending on the day, it consumed all the HD space, stopping the journal and requiring manual intervention.

And as there were numerous transactions in SQL that depends on BeginTransaction, CommitTransaction, in addition to mirroring, removing this data from the journal was not an option.

The solution was to adjust the size of the journal file fractions in System > Configuration > Journal Settings [Start new journal file every (MB)] to something like ([YouMaxJournalSizeInMB]/256)

Create a scheduled task by calling, for example, ManualPurge.
It should be daily, hourly, in my case during business hours, from 06:00 to 23:59 (so as not to disturb the backup)

The task file should have something like:

/// [2016-12-29] Marcio Dias - Creation.
Class YourAplication.Utilities.JournalTask Extends %SYS.Task.Definition
{

Parameter TaskName = "ManualPurge";

Method OnTask() As %Status
{
    Set $ZTrap = "Error", tSC = ##class(%SYSTEM.Status).OK()

    Set zNS = $NAMESPACE
    ZNSPACE "%SYS"

    Set tSC = ##class(%SYS.Journal.File).PurgeAll()
    If ( $System.Status.IsError( tSC ) ) {
    {
        Do ##class(%SYS.System).WriteToConsoleLog( "Error in ManualPurge: " _ ##class(%SYSTEM.Status).GetErrorText( tSC ) )
    }

Error 
    ZNSPACE zNS
    Quit tSC
}

}

The purpose of this solution is, every hour, to physically erase the individual journal file in which all open transactions are closed and already exported to the mirror system.
The ##class(%SYS.Journal.File).PurgeAll() parses and guarantees these conditions

In my case, after deploying this solution, the maximum journal size hardly exceeded 80Gb in total.

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