[11:08:14] DBA, Patch-For-Review: Prepare mysql account and options for prometheus - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128185#2421039 (jcrespo) p:Low>High [12:47:36] DBA: Test InnoDB compression - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139055#2421237 (jcrespo) ``` MariaDB PRODUCTION s1 localhost enwiki > ALTER TABLE revision row_format=compressed key_block_size=8\G Stage: 1 of 1 'altering table' 100% of stage done Query OK, 0 rows affected (16 hours 22 min 24.83 sec) Reco... [12:48:05] but schema changes are easy! it only requires locking a table for 16 hours! [12:56:39] DBA: Test InnoDB compression - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139055#2421240 (jcrespo) Before: ``` -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 267772755968 Jun 30 17:14 revision.ibd ``` After: ``` -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 110121451520 Jul 1 11:03 revision.ibd ``` With key_block=8, space used as been reduced to less tha... [13:03:45] DBA: Test InnoDB compression - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139055#2421243 (jcrespo) By compressing 1 table we have reduced in >100GB the space used (and potentially, halved future iops, too): https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/server-board?from=1467291716324&to=1467377876324&var-server=db1073...