SHOW PROCESSLIST.It seems that
TRIGGERs causes Table Locks to be taken when used with Ndb cluster tables!! I have created a bug report .If we do an update on a table that has an update trigger the trigger will upon execution lock the entire table that is affected by the trigger.
This was verified by having several threads updating random records in a table. When one update gets to execute, the trigger will block the other updates from happening. This was shown using
SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST¸ which shows a bunch of statements being in the state Locked. Also, the Table_locks_waited (SHOW GLOBAL STATUS) was also constantly increasing.This shouldn't happen as Cluster uses Row-level locking. Innodb handles this by downgrading the table lock to a row-level lock.
Removing the
TRIGGER "fixed" the problem (i.e, proving it is broken).So if you experience terrible scalability with Cluster and Triggers, then this may explain why..
