Hi, I'm setting up a replication slave based off of MySQL 5.6. There are a large number of tables (400K). The MySQL 5.6 master takes around 10 minutes to start up, where the new MariaDB 10.2 slave takes close to 30 minutes. What is making the startup take soo long? In the below mysql log, you can see in the startup sequence between "Highest supported file format is Barracuda." and "InnoDB: 128 out of 128 rollback segments are active." the startup process takes the majority of its time: 2018-01-07 9:38:15 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins 2018-01-07 9:38:15 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes 2018-01-07 9:38:15 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.8 2018-01-07 9:38:15 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO 2018-01-07 9:38:15 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1 2018-01-07 9:38:15 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE2 crc32 instructions 2018-01-07 9:38:15 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 54G, instances = 8, chunk size = 128M 2018-01-07 9:38:18 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2018-01-07 9:38:18 139918113195776 [Note] InnoDB: If the mysqld execution user is authorized, page cleaner thread priority can be changed. See the man page of setpriority(). 2018-01-07 9:38:18 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda. 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: 128 out of 128 rollback segments are active. 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file './ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ... 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: File './ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB. 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139980432365760 [Note] InnoDB: 5.7.20 started; log sequence number 1394303471760 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139919461500672 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from /var/lib/mysql/ib_buffer_pool 2018-01-07 10:11:48 139980432365760 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'. 2018-01-07 10:11:49 139980432365760 [Note] Reading of all Master_info entries succeded 2018-01-07 10:11:49 139980432365760 [Note] Added new Master_info '' to hash table 2018-01-07 10:11:49 139980432365760 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '10.2.11-MariaDB-10.2.11+maria~xenial-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port: 3306 mariadb.org binary distribution Any ideas why? I've included my my.conf file below. Thanks, Mike # Generated by Percona Configuration Wizard (http://tools.percona.com/) version REL5-20120208 # Configuration name usaddxprdsqlpm3 generated formcaplan@labnet.net at 2017-12-22 13:49:58 [mysql] # CLIENT # port = 3306 socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock [mysqladmin] # CLIENT # port = 3306 socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock [mysqld] # GENERAL # user = mysql default-storage-engine = InnoDB socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock pid-file = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.pid character-set-server = utf8 collation_server = utf8_general_ci performance_schema = 0 # MyISAM # key-buffer-size = 32M myisam-recover = FORCE,BACKUP # SAFETY # max-allowed-packet = 20M max-connect-errors = 1000000 skip-name-resolve sysdate-is-now = 1 innodb = FORCE # DATA STORAGE # datadir = /var/lib/mysql/ # BINARY LOGGING # log-bin = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin binlog_format = MIXED server-id = 3 expire-logs-days = 7 sync-binlog = 1 # REPLICATION # read-only = 1 skip-slave-start = 1 log-slave-updates = 1 relay-log = /var/lib/mysql/relay-bin slave-net-timeout = 60 sync-master-info = 1 sync-relay-log = 1 sync-relay-log-info = 1 # CACHES AND LIMITS # tmp-table-size = 32M max-heap-table-size = 32M query-cache-type = 0 query-cache-size = 0 max-connections = 500 thread-cache-size = 50 open-files-limit = 65535 table-definition-cache = 4096 table-open-cache = 10240 # INNODB # innodb-flush-method = O_DIRECT innodb-log-files-in-group = 2 innodb-log-file-size = 512M innodb-flush-log-at-trx-commit = 1 innodb-file-per-table = 1 innodb-buffer-pool-size = 54G # LOGGING # log-error = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-error.log log-queries-not-using-indexes = 0 slow-query-log = 0 slow-query-log-file = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-slow.log [mariadb] plugin-load-add=file_key_management file_key_management_filename=/var/lib/mysql/keys.enc file_key_management_filekey=FILE:/var/lib/mysql/mysql.key file_key_management_encryption_algorithm=AES_CTR encrypt_binlog=0