http://www.scalemysql.com/blog/2014/03/13/infinidb-4-0-2-review/
Locking – each load requires a table lock and occasionally, one of two things happen,
a) a table is locked and does not release the lock – we’ve even had a time or two where we’ve restarted the system and still has not released the lock (contrary to documentation). There is a view and clear lock utility, but for some reason it’s currently not working for us at the moment either. Our solution was to hunt for the file that contains this lock, and sure enough, you can find it on your parent pm at /usr/local/Calpont/data1/systemFiles/dbrm/tablelocks. Simply removing it and restart seems to work. This behavior seems to depend on the particular data being loaded, this happened on the same table 3 times, and we ran into most of this when initially loading our full data set.
b) table lock can not be acquired – In this case, a load is attempting to get a table lock, can’t get it and aborts the load. There were no other queries on the same table running at the same time, and in fact seemed to happen mainly when loading of other tables/dbs simultaneously.
Critical errors – we’ve ran into this a few times, where an error such as ‘image inconsistency’ initiates the system to go into ‘read-only’ mode. We only experienced it during a load which I suppose makes sense as it’s the only time we are significantly writing. When encountering this during a load it also attempts to rollback but can’t because again it’s been put into read-only mode. You might deal with the lock separately as above, and the read-only issue is suppose to clear after a system restart, but we’ve seen where it doesn’t. You then have two options. The advice at this link may help, http://infinidb.co/community/infinidb-not-starting otherwise, you may have to remove the entire infinidb installation and replace with your latest backup. We are not using a redundant file system such as HDFS or glusterFS, which may or may not help.
Locking:
Table is locked only when loading only on the PM node on which the data is being loaded. You can use cpimport mode 3 to do loads directly on PM node as well as specify the the PM nodes on which you want to load data when using cpimport mode 1. This lock is only for writing not for reading – that is while data is being loaded/appended you can still do read query.
Error: InfiniDB DBRM in Read only mode error
Posted on March 3, 2014 Updated on March 3, 2014
I was using infinidb 2.11 community edition, after couple of usage my data1 directory is growing rapidly, so I moved it to the NAS storage location because the community edition is not supporting for data compression. I realized that it will affect the Infinidb performance.
At the time of using NAS storage, I was faced many issues like data dir permission some thing, I findout the error is “DBRM in Read only mode”, From the infinidb forum nothing workout the solution they specified, I can’t restart Infinidb server for this issues, basically it is a busy server.
At last doing couple of research about Infinidb, I got the solution for this error without restarting Infinidb. Follow the steps below
This error because of DBRM unable to rollback the broken transaction.
Use the commands and make the operation normal
/usr/local/Calpont/bin/save_brm
/usr/local/Calpont/bin/dbrmctl reload
/usr/local/Calpont/bin/DMLProc
If everything seems good the last command shows the output like this
[root@infinidb02 bin]# ./DMLProc
Locale is : C
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
what(): InetStreamSocket::bind: bind() error: Address already in use