MariaDB process getting killed once a day on fresh CentOS 7 install

September 17, 2014 8.5k views
kogpaw
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kogpaw

Hi guys,

Basically, MariaDB is getting killed randomly once a day, sometimes it lasts for a couple of days and then it goes down. The logs say it's being killed and not restarting. I checked the server load and it is super low, as I am only hosting a couple domains with almost no traffic.

I can restart the service again no problem using "service mariadb start", but eventually it gets killed.

# service mariadb status
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status  mariadb.service
mariadb.service - MariaDB database server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2014-09-16 18:53:31 IST; 16h ago
  Process: 3461 ExecStartPost=/usr/libexec/mariadb-wait-ready $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 3460 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mysqld_safe --basedir=/usr (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 3433 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/mariadb-prepare-db-dir %n (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 3460 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/mariadb.service

Sep 16 10:11:44 serverizr mysqld_safe[3460]: 140916 05:11:44 mysqld_safe Logging to '/var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log'.
Sep 16 10:11:44 serverizr mysqld_safe[3460]: 140916 05:11:44 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql
Sep 16 10:11:45 serverizr systemd[1]: Started MariaDB database server.
Sep 16 18:53:23 serverizr mysqld_safe[3460]: /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 182:  3619 Killed                  nohup /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/u
Sep 16 18:53:30 serverizr mysqld_safe[3460]: 140916 13:53:30 mysqld_safe Number of processes running now: 0
Sep 16 18:53:30 serverizr mysqld_safe[3460]: 140916 13:53:30 mysqld_safe mysqld restarted
Sep 16 18:53:30 serverizr mysqld_safe[3460]: /usr/bin/mysqld_safe: line 182:  7510 Killed                  nohup /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/var/lib/mysql --plugin-dir=/u
Sep 16 18:53:31 serverizr mysqld_safe[3460]: 140916 13:53:31 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mariadb/mariadb.pid ended

I've been searching for help on how to solve this but so far, no solution has worked and the logs are not saying much.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

2 comments
  • kamaln7 MOD September 17, 2014

    MariaDB crashing usually means that your droplet is running out of memory. Do you see any errors in /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log?

    sudo tail -30 /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log
  • kogpaw September 18, 2014

    @kamaln7 that was exactly my first thought. However, there is nothing else in the mariadb.log besides "xxx table is marked as crashed and should be repaired" messages and all that I pasted in my original post.

    I recently started the service using "mysqld_safe" instead of "service mariadb start" and it hasn't crashed for 24 hours. Does it make any difference?

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EgorPetrov October 29, 2014

Have same problem. Yes, MariaDB out of memory, but in this moments number of processes over average value. Like this: Memory graph processes graph Maybe need limit number of processes?

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  • kogpaw October 30, 2014

    It doesn't seem like a memory issue or number of processes in my particular case. I started the service back in September using "mysqld_safe" instead of "service mariadb start" and it hasn't crashed since then.

    I don't really know what the difference is and why the process gets killed when using "service start".

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