1

I have added a couple of background indexes on few collections on mongodb replicaset (3.0.2, MMAPv1 storage), and since then I'm seeing following entry in db.currentOp(true) response in all nodes (this one from Primary):

{
 "desc" : "rsSync",
 "threadId" : "0x2923ee0",
 "opid" : 5653,
 "active" : false,
 "op" : "none",
 "ns" : "local.replset.minvalid",
 "query" : {
 },
 "msg" : "Index Bulk Build: (3/3) btree-middle",
 "numYields" : 0,
 "locks" : {
 },
 "waitingForLock" : false,
 "lockStats" : {
 "Global" : {
 "acquireCount" : {
 "r" : NumberLong(2),
 "R" : NumberLong(1),
 "W" : NumberLong(1)
 }
 },
 "MMAPV1Journal" : {
 "acquireCount" : {
 "r" : NumberLong(1),
 "w" : NumberLong(1)
 }
 },
 "Database" : {
 "acquireCount" : {
 "r" : NumberLong(1),
 "R" : NumberLong(1)
 }
 },
 "Collection" : {
 "acquireCount" : {
 "R" : NumberLong(1)
 }
 }
 }
},

It has been running for nearly 5 days now. From "Index Bulk Build: (3/3) btree-middle" I would guess it's still rebuilding indexes, but it seems to be taking unusually long time. Whole database is ~140Gb on disk, and I wasn't adding indexes on biggest collections either.

Database performance is 2-3 times slower than it was before adding background indexes.

One of collections that I added index on has many slow (30ms) "count" queries (had them before new indexes).

Servers are idling, resource usage (CPU load, Disk I/O, Network traffic, RAM usage) looks unchanged in graphs. 3 bare metal machines in use, one Primary and 2 Secondary nodes. Rotational disks are used, but 128G RAM, 122G cached.

Database is doing ~25K RPM, collections that indexes were added upon are in use. Collection sizes that I added background indexes on vary from 100-1K to 100K-1M records.

How to tell what exactly mongodb is doing right now, and if it's possible / safe to kill this indexing operation if it's stuck?

Or perhaps indexing is over, but that message does not have to disappear, and my indexes somehow degraded the performance?

How to troubleshoot this situation?

asked Sep 15, 2015 at 13:49

1 Answer 1

1

Solved this one. While indexing was running, new code was released in production, which contained a bad query. I was checking Primary performance only, and killer query was happening on Secondary node. After adding one more necessary index, everything went back to normal, performance is stellar again.

However message "msg" : "Index Bulk Build: (3/3) btree-middle" is still there.

answered Sep 15, 2015 at 14:34

Your Answer

Draft saved
Draft discarded

Sign up or log in

Sign up using Google
Sign up using Email and Password

Post as a guest

Required, but never shown

Post as a guest

Required, but never shown

By clicking "Post Your Answer", you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge you have read our privacy policy.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.