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The tests were consistently unstable and as a result of this did not provide any actionable output. In addition to this these two test were the longest running tests in the whole MaxScale test suite so a re-design was warranted. Instead of emulating a client and a server failure, testing functionality provides for a test that is faster, more precise and provides more actionable output. Due to the single-threadedness of the new test, no cross-thread depencies are present. In addition to this, the superfluous log flushing was not done as it almost always happened after all transactions were already complete. The estimated savings in test time alone is around 1100 seconds (roughly 18 minutes).
MaxScale by MariaDB Corporation
The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows forwarding of database statements to one or more database servers using complex rules, a semantic understanding of the database statements and the roles of the various servers within the backend cluster of databases.
MaxScale is designed to provide load balancing and high availability functionality transparently to the applications. In addition it provides a highly scalable and flexible architecture, with plugin components to support different protocols and routing decisions.
For a detailed overview of what MaxScale can do, read the MaxScale page on the MariaDB website.
An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas, issues and communicate with the MaxScale community.
We're also on the #maria and #maxscale channels on FreeNode.
Please report all feature requests, improvements and bugs in the MariaDB Jira.
Getting Started
Read the Documentation Overview for a list of all MaxScale documents.
Documentation
The official documentation can be found on the MariaDB Knowledge Base.
A MaxScale Troubleshooting Guide can be found on the MariaDB Knowledgebase. It answers common questions encountered when installing and using MaxScale.
The documentation can also be found in the Documentation directory of the source tree.
Contributing Code
Read the Contributing page on the wiki for more information on how to do pull request and where to do them.