MySQL Adventures: Reduce MySQL Memory Utilization With ProxySQL Multiplexing

In our previous post, we explained about how max_prepared_statement_count can bring production down . This blog is the continuity of that post. If you can read that blog from the below link.

How max_prepared_stmt_count bring down the production MySQL system

We had set the max_prepared_stmt_count to 20000. But after that, we were facing the below error continuously.

Can't create more than max_prepared_stmt_count statements (current value: 20000)

We tried to increase it to 25000, 30000 and finally 50000. But unfortunately, we can’t fix it and …

MySQL Adventures: How max_prepared_stmt_count can bring down production

We recently moved an On-Prem environment to GCP for better scalability and availability. The customer’s main database is MySQL. Due to the nature of customer’s business, it’s a highly transactional workload (one of the hot startups in APAC). To deal with the scale and meet availability requirements, we have deployed MySQL behind ProxySQL — which takes care of routing some of the resource intensive SELECTs to chosen replicas. The setup consists of:

• One Master
• Two slaves
• One Archive database server

Post migration to GCP, everything was nice and calm for a couple of weeks, until MySQL decided to start misbehaving and leading to an outage. We were able to quickly resolve and bring the system back online and what follows are lessons from this experience.

The configuration of the …