Hi, I'd like to evaluate mariadb-galera on some test databases. Our load is at least 90% writes coming from a datastream and I would try to set up a real-world situation and test with real data. Most of the work load is "insert ... on duplicate key update" mass-inserts (actually updates) of about 4MB/10000 rows each. 99% of these run onto 3-4 tables (each around 10GB/7 million rows of size). Total database size is around 800 GB. We have a traditional statement-based master-slave replication, but all these mass-inserts run over a proxy with SET SQL_LOG_BIN=0 in parallel on all systems - no way to process this amount of data single-threaded on the slaves. I was hoping galera would make this easier and make our proxies obsolete. I have some servers I could use for galera as a first step. I wanted to do this for 4 months now but never got into it, I read your request to test the RC and think I should start now hoping to be able to give some valuable feedback: After reading through the documentation and some blogs I have some doubts, but my idea was to do the following: I'd clone the database of an existing slave to a new machine with mariadb-galera (name the host "testgalera1" and rsync the database or use mysqldump). I'd then set up this one as a "normal" statement based slave connected to one of our masters? Afterwards, the next host "testgalera2" would have to be added to the galera-cluster? And after that, I'd set up one of our older database servers and add that to the cluster, too. My idea was to take an older, slower system to see how much this slowes the cluster down and get an idea how much headroom I'd have when I leave those old machines out (the old machines have only 64GB of RAM and slower CPUs). I'd then modify my proxy for all the incoming inserts and add a writer-thread to one of the hosts in the cluster, that data should be replicated by galera to all other galera hosts. All other data should be coming in via the "traditional" replication thread of testgalera1. This should give me a 95-99% real world write situation on the cluster. Adding a host to a running cluster would mean cloning the whole database (of course), but this also means the host I copy from would have to block write access to its tables and buffer all modifications in memory (at least that's how I read the documentation) during the copy process. Looking at the database size and amount of inserts, I am afraid adding a host to the cluster without taking everything down would be impossible - or even if it works fine now it could cause trouble once the database gets just a little bit larger or my load increases a bit. before I start with this - is galera an insane idea regarding my load? Or is it worth a try? Jan some numbers of some of the old databases: innodb_buffer_pool_size between 60-120 GB depending on server memory configuration. db5: Uptime: 8052248 Threads: 44 Questions: 1413881794 Slow queries: 160049 Opens: 683779 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 1024 Queries per second avg: 175.588 db6: Uptime: 8070552 Threads: 6 Questions: 873413218 Slow queries: 3208 Opens: 336584 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 578 Queries per second avg: 108.222 db7: Uptime: 4175032 Threads: 28 Questions: 639627677 Slow queries: 139337 Opens: 522673 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 2016 Queries per second avg: 153.203 db7# mysql -e 'show global status like "%com\_%" ' |grep -v '\s0$' Variable_name Value Com_admin_commands 289127 Com_alter_table 6269 Com_analyze 725 Com_begin 3712141 Com_change_db 80112 Com_commit 3999309 Com_create_db 1 Com_create_table 253849 Com_create_trigger 10 Com_create_view 68 Com_delete 12365037 Com_delete_multi 7 Com_drop_table 310771 Com_drop_trigger 10 Com_drop_view 65 Com_empty_query 509 Com_flush 48 Com_grant 36 Com_insert 314280963 Com_insert_select 613565 Com_kill 214 Com_lock_tables 85 Com_optimize 1 Com_purge 2320 Com_rename_table 11 Com_repair 1 Com_replace 14240825 Com_replace_select 29920 Com_revoke 8 Com_rollback 13 Com_select 178540996 Com_set_option 6886915 Com_show_binlogs 69960 Com_show_charsets 1542 Com_show_collations 1544 Com_show_create_db 28 Com_show_create_func 195 Com_show_create_table 53282 Com_show_create_trigger 1 Com_show_databases 43584 Com_show_events 3 Com_show_fields 131874 Com_show_function_status 45 Com_show_grants 335 Com_show_keys 2582 Com_show_master_status 142 Com_show_plugins 7224 Com_show_procedure_status 45 Com_show_processlist 116918 Com_show_slave_status 83193 Com_show_status 155732 Com_show_storage_engines 25 Com_show_table_status 7439 Com_show_tables 1973739 Com_show_triggers 538 Com_show_variables 85034 Com_show_warnings 766 Com_stmt_close 363 Com_stmt_execute 363 Com_stmt_prepare 363 Com_truncate 452 Com_unlock_tables 79 Com_update 34496744 Com_update_multi 408212