Restricting Speed of Reading Binlog from Primary by a Replica

Control binlog reading speed from a primary by a replica. This section explains how to configure replicas to regulate the rate at which they consume binary log events, optimizing network usage.

When a replica starts after being stopped for some time, or a new replica starts that was created from a backup from some time back, a lot of old binlog events may need to be downloaded from the primary. If this happens from many replicas simultaneously, it can put a lot of load on the primary.

The read_binlog_speed_limit option can be used to reduce such load, by limiting the speed at which events are downloaded. The limit is given as maximum kilobytes per second to download on one replica connection.

With this option set, the replication I/O thread will limit the rate of download. Since the I/O thread is often much faster to download events than the SQL thread is at applying them, an appropriate value forread_binlog_speed_limit may reduce load spikes on the primary without much limit in the speed of the replica.

The option read_binlog_speed_limit is available starting from MariaDB 10.2.3.

read_binlog_speed_limit

• Description: Maximum speed(KB/s) to read binlog from primary.

• Commandline: --read-binlog-speed-limit[=#]

• Scope: Global

• Dynamic: Yes

• Data Type: numeric

• Default Value: 0

• Range: 0 to 4294967295

• Introduced: MariaDB 10.2.3

_{This page is licensed: CC BY-SA / Gnu FDL}