TiKV Configuration File

The TiKV configuration file supports more options than command-line parameters. You can find the default configuration file in etc/config-template.toml and rename it to config.toml.

This document only describes the parameters that are not included in command-line parameters. For more details, see command-line parameter.

server

• Configuration items related to the server

status-thread-pool-size

• The number of worker threads for the HTTP API service
• Default value: 1
• Minimum value: 1

grpc-compression-type

• The compression algorithm for gRPC messages
• Available values: none, deflate, gzip
• Default value: none

grpc-concurrency

• The number of gRPC worker threads
• Default value: 4
• Minimum value: 1

grpc-concurrent-stream

• The maximum number of concurrent requests allowed in a gRPC stream
• Default value: 1024
• Minimum value: 1

grpc-raft-conn-num

• The maximum number of links among TiKV nodes for Raft communication
• Default: 1
• Minimum value: 1

grpc-stream-initial-window-size

• The window size of the gRPC stream
• Default: 2MB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB
• Minimum value: 1KB

grpc-keepalive-time

• The time interval at which that gRPC sends keepalive Ping messages
• Default: 10s
• Minimum value: 1s

grpc-keepalive-timeout

• Disables the timeout for gRPC streams
• Default: "3s"
• Minimum value: "1s"

concurrent-send-snap-limit

• The maximum number of snapshots sent at the same time
• Default value: 32
• Minimum value: 1

concurrent-recv-snap-limit

• The maximum number of snapshots received at the same time
• Default value: 32
• Minimum value: 1

end-point-recursion-limit

• The maximum number of recursive levels allowed when TiKV decodes the Coprocessor DAG expression
• Default value: 1000
• Minimum value: 1

end-point-slow-log-threshold

• The time threshold for a TiDB's push down request to print slow log
• Default value: "1s"
• Minimum value: 0

end-point-request-max-handle-duration

• The longest duration allowed for a TiDB's push down request to TiKV for processing tasks
• Default value: "60s"
• Minimum value: "1s"

snap-max-write-bytes-per-sec

• The maximum allowable disk bandwidth when processing snapshots
• Default value: "100MB"
• Unit: KB|MB|GB
• Minimum value: "1KB"

readpool.unified

server.concurrent-send-snap-limit

• The maximum number of snapshots that can be sent at the same time
• Default value: 32
• Minimum value: 1

server.concurrent-recv-snap-limit

• The maximum number of snapshots that can be received at the same time
• Default value: 32
• Minimum value: 1

server.end-point-recursion-limit

• The maximum number of recursive layers allowed when TiKV decodes the Coprocessor DAG expression
• Default value: 1000
• Minimum value: 1

server.end-point-request-max-handle-duration

• The longest duration allowed for a TiDB request to TiKV for processing tasks
• Default value: 60s
• Minimum value: 1s

server.snap-max-write-bytes-per-sec

• The maximum allowable disk bandwidth for processing snapshots
• Default value: 1000MB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB
• Minimum value: 1KB

readpool.storage

Configuration items related to storage thread pool

high-concurrency

• The allowable number of concurrent threads that handle high-priority read requests
• Default value: 4
• Minimum value: 1

normal-concurrency

• The allowable number of concurrent threads that handle normal-priority read requests
• Default value: 4
• Minimum value: 1

low-concurrency

• The allowable number of concurrent threads that handle low-priority read requests
• Default value: 4
• Minimum value: 1

max-tasks-per-worker-high

• The maximum number of tasks allowed for a single thread in a high-priority thread pool. Server Is Busy is returned when the value is exceeded.
• Default value: 2000
• Minimum value: 2

max-tasks-per-worker-normal

• The maximum number of tasks allowed for a single thread in a normal-priority thread pool. Server Is Busy is returned when the value is exceeded.
• Default value: 2000
• Minimum value: 2

max-tasks-per-worker-low

• The maximum number of tasks allowed for a single thread in a low-priority thread pool. Server Is Busy is returned when the value is exceeded.
• Default value: 2000
• Minimum value: 2

stack-size

• The stack size of threads in the Storage read thread pool
• Default value: 10MB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB
• Minimum value: 2MB

readpool.coprocessor

Configuration items related to the Coprocessor thread pool

high-concurrency

• The allowable number of concurrent threads that handle high-priority Coprocessor requests, such as checkpoints
• Default value: CPU * 0.8
• Minimum value: 1

normal-concurrency

• The allowable number of concurrent threads that handle normal-priority Coprocessor requests
• Default value: CPU * 0.8
• Minimum value: 1

low-concurrency

• The allowable number of concurrent threads that handle low-priority Coprocessor requests, such as table scan
• Default value: CPU * 0.8
• Minimum value: 1

max-tasks-per-worker-high

• The number of tasks allowed for a single thread in a high-priority thread pool. When this number is exceeded, Server Is Busy is returned.
• Default value: 2000
• Minimum value: 2

max-tasks-per-worker-normal

• The number of tasks allowed for a single thread in a normal-priority thread pool. When this number is exceeded, Server Is Busy is returned.
• Default value: 2000
• Minimum value: 2

max-tasks-per-worker-low

• The number of tasks allowed for a single thread in a low-priority thread pool. When this number is exceeded, Server Is Busy is returned.
• Default value: 2000
• Minimum value: 2

stack-size

• The stack size of the thread in the Coprocessor thread pool
• Default value: 10MB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB
• Minimum value: 2MB

storage

Configuration items related to storage

scheduler-concurrency

• A built-in memory lock mechanism to prevent simultaneous operations on a key. Each key has a hash in a different slot.
• Default value: 2048000
• Minimum value: 1

scheduler-worker-pool-size

• The number of scheduler threads, mainly used for checking transaction consistency before data writing
• Default value: 4
• Minimum value: 1

scheduler-pending-write-threshold

• The maximum size of the write queue. A Server Is Busy error is returned for a new write to TiKV when this value is exceeded.
• Default value: 100MB
• Unit: MB|GB

raftstore

Configuration items related to Raftstore

sync-log

• Enables or disables synchronous write mode. In the synchronous write mode, each commit is forced to be flushed to raft-log synchronously for persistent storage.
• Default value: true

prevote

• Enables or disables prevote. Enabling this feature helps reduce jitter on the system after recovery from network partition.
• Default value: true

raftdb-path

• The path to the Raft library, which is storage.data-dir/raft by default
• Default value: ""

raft-base-tick-interval

• The time interval at which the Raft state machine ticks
• Default value: 1s
• Minimum value: greater than 0

raft-heartbeat-ticks

• The number of passed ticks when the heartbeat is sent. This means that a heartbeat is sent at the time interval of raft-base-tick-interval * raft-heartbeat-ticks.
• Default value: 2
• Minimum value: greater than 0

raft-election-timeout-ticks

• The number of passed ticks when Raft election is initiated. This means that if Raft group is missing the leader, a leader election is initiated approximately after the time interval of raft-base-tick-interval * raft-election-timeout-ticks.
• Default value: 10
• Minimum value: raft-heartbeat-ticks

raft-min-election-timeout-ticks

• The minimum number of ticks during which the Raft election is initiated. If the number is 0, the value of raft-election-timeout-ticks is used. The value of this parameter must be greater than or equal to raft-election-timeout-ticks.
• Default value: 0
• Minimum value: 0

raft-max-election-timeout-ticks

• The maximum number of ticks during which the Raft election is initiated. If the number is 0, the value of raft-election-timeout-ticks * 2 is used.
• Default value: 0
• Minimum value: 0

raft-max-size-per-message

• The soft limit on the size of a single message packet
• Default value: 1MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: MB

raft-max-inflight-msgs

• The number of Raft logs to be confirmed. If this number is exceeded, log sending slows down.
• Default value: 256
• Minimum value: greater than 0

raft-entry-max-size

• The hard limit on the maximum size of a single log
• Default value: 8MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: MB|GB

raft-log-gc-tick-interval

• The time interval at which the polling task of deleting Raft logs is scheduled. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 10s
• Minimum value: 0

raft-log-gc-threshold

• The soft limit on the maximum allowable count of residual Raft logs
• Default value: 50
• Minimum value: 1

raft-log-gc-count-limit

• The hard limit on the allowable number of residual Raft logs
• Default value: the log number that can be accommodated in the 3/4 Region size (calculated as 1MB for each log)
• Minimum value: 0

raft-log-gc-size-limit

• The hard limit on the allowable size of residual Raft logs
• Default value: 3/4 of the Region size
• Minimum value: greater than 0

raft-entry-cache-life-time

• The maximum remaining time allowed for the log cache in memory.
• Default value: 30s
• Minimum value: 0

raft-reject-transfer-leader-duration

• The protection time for new nodes, which is used to control the shortest interval to migrate a leader to the newly added node. Setting this value too small might cause the failure of leader transfer.
• Default value: 3s
• Minimum value: 0

hibernate-regions (Experimental)

• Enables or disables Hibernate Region. When this option is enabled, a Region idle for a long time is automatically set as hibernated. This reduces the extra overhead caused by heartbeat messages between the Raft leader and the followers for idle Regions. You can use raftstore.peer-stale-state-check-interval to modify the heartbeat interval between the leader and the followers of hibernated Regions.
• Default value: false

raftstore.peer-stale-state-check-interval

• Modifies the state check interval for Regions.
• Default value: 5 min

split-region-check-tick-interval

• Specifies the interval at which to check whether the Region split is needed. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 10s
• Minimum value: 0

region-split-check-diff

• The maximum value by which the Region data is allowed to exceed before Region split
• Default value: 1/16 of the Region size.
• Minimum value: 0

region-compact-check-interval

• The time interval at which to check whether it is necessary to manually trigger RocksDB compaction. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 5m
• Minimum value: 0

clean-stale-peer-delay

• Delays the time in deleting expired replica data
• Default value: 10m
• Minimum value: 0

region-compact-check-step

• The number of Regions checked at one time for each round of manual compaction
• Default value: 100
• Minimum value: 0

region-compact-min-tombstones

• The number of tombstones required to trigger RocksDB compaction
• Default value: 10000
• Minimum value: 0

region-compact-tombstones-percent

• The proportion of tombstone required to trigger RocksDB compaction
• Default value: 30
• Minimum value: 1
• Maximum value: 100

pd-heartbeat-tick-interval

• The time interval at which a Region's heartbeat to PD is triggered. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 1m
• Minimum value: 0

pd-store-heartbeat-tick-interval

• The time interval at which a store's heartbeat to PD is triggered. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 10s
• Minimum value: 0

snap-mgr-gc-tick-interval

• The time interval at which the recycle of expired snapshot files is triggered. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 5s
• Minimum value: 0

snap-gc-timeout

• The longest time for which a snapshot file is saved
• Default value: 4h
• Minimum value: 0

lock-cf-compact-interval

• The time interval at which TiKV triggers a manual compaction for the Lock Column Family
• Default value: 256MB
• Default value: 10m
• Minimum value: 0

lock-cf-compact-bytes-threshold

• The size out of which TiKV triggers a manual compaction for the Lock Column Family
• Default value: 256MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: MB

notify-capacity

• The longest length of the Region message queue.
• Default value: 40960
• Minimum value: 0

messages-per-tick

• The maximum number of messages processed per batch
• Default value: 4096
• Minimum value: 0

max-peer-down-duration

• The longest inactive duration allowed for a peer. A peer with timeout is marked as down, and PD tries to delete it later.
• Default value: 5m
• Minimum value: 0

max-leader-missing-duration

• The longest duration allowed for a peer to be in the state where a Raft group is missing the leader. If this value is exceeded, the peer verifies with PD whether the peer has been deleted.
• Default value: 2h
• Minimum value: greater than abnormal-leader-missing-duration

abnormal-leader-missing-duration

• The longest duration allowed for a peer to be in the state where a Raft group is missing the leader. If this value is exceeded, the peer is seen as abnormal and marked in metrics and logs.
• Default value: 10m
• Minimum value: greater than peer-stale-state-check-interval

peer-stale-state-check-interval

• The time interval to trigger the check for whether a peer is in the state where a Raft group is missing the leader.
• Default value: 5m
• Minimum value: greater than 2 * election-timeout

leader-transfer-max-log-lag

• The maximum number of missing logs allowed for the transferee during a Raft leader transfer
• Default value: 10
• Minimum value: 10

snap-apply-batch-size

• The memory cache size required when the imported snapshot file is written into the disk
• Default value: 10MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: MB

consistency-check-interval

• The time interval at which the consistency check is triggered. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 0s
• Minimum value: 0

raft-store-max-leader-lease

• The longest trusted period of a Raft leader
• Default value: 9s
• Minimum value: 0

allow-remove-leader

• Determines whether to allow deleting the main switch
• Default value: false

merge-max-log-gap

• The maximum number of missing logs allowed when merge is performed
• Default value: 10
• Minimum value: greater than raft-log-gc-count-limit

merge-check-tick-interval

• The time interval at which TiKV checks whether a Region needs merge
• Default value: 10s
• Minimum value: greater than 0

use-delete-range

• Determines whether to delete data from the rocksdb delete_range interface
• Default value: false

cleanup-import-sst-interval

• The time interval at which the expired SST file is checked. 0 means that this feature is disabled.
• Default value: 10m
• Minimum value: 0

local-read-batch-size

• The maximum number of read requests processed in one batch
• Default value: 1024
• Minimum value: greater than 0

apply-max-batch-size

• The maximum number of requests for data flushing in one batch
• Default value: 1024
• Minimum value: greater than 0

apply-pool-size

• The allowable number of threads in the pool that flushes data to storage
• Default value: 2
• Minimum value: greater than 0

store-max-batch-size

• The maximum number of requests processed in one batch
• Default value: 1024
• Minimum value: greater than 0

store-pool-size

• The allowable number of threads that process Raft
• Default value: 2
• Minimum value: greater than 0

future-poll-size

• The allowable number of threads that drive future
• Default value: 1
• Minimum value: greater than 0

Coprocessor

Configuration items related to Coprocessor

split-region-on-table

• Determines whether to split Region by table. It is recommended for you to use the feature only in TiDB mode.
• Default value: true

batch-split-limit

• The threshold of Region split in batches. Increasing this value speeds up Region split.
• Default value: 10
• Minimum value: 1

region-max-size

• The maximum size of a Region. When the value is exceeded, the Region splits into many.
• Default value: 144MB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

region-split-size

• The size of the newly split Region. This value is an estimate.
• Default value: 96MB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

region-max-keys

• The maximum allowable number of keys in a Region. When this value is exceeded, the Region splits into many.
• Default value: 1440000

region-split-keys

• The number of keys in the newly split Region. This value is an estimate.
• Default value: 960000

RocksDB

Configuration items related to RocksDB

max-background-jobs

• The number of background threads in RocksDB
• Default value: 8
• Minimum value: 1

max-sub-compactions

• The number of sub-compaction operations performed concurrently in RocksDB
• Default value: 1
• Minimum value: 1

max-open-files

• The total number of files that RocksDB can open
• Default value: 40960
• Minimum value: -1

max-manifest-file-size

• The maximum size of a RocksDB Manifest file
• Default value: 128MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: B|KB|MB|GB

create-if-missing

• Determines whether to automatically create a DB switch
• Default value: true

wal-recovery-mode

• WAL recovery mode
• Available values: 0 (TolerateCorruptedTailRecords), 1 (AbsoluteConsistency), 2 (PointInTimeRecovery), 3 (SkipAnyCorruptedRecords)
• Default value: 2
• Minimum value: 0
• Maximum value: 3

wal-dir

• The directory in which WAL files are stored
• Default value: /tmp/tikv/store

wal-ttl-seconds

• The living time of the archived WAL files. When the value is exceeded, the system deletes these files.
• Default value: 0
• Minimum value: 0
• unit: second

wal-size-limit

• The size limit of the archived WAL files. When the value is exceeded, the system deletes these files.
• Default value: 0
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: B|KB|MB|GB

enable-statistics

• Determines whether to enable the statistics of RocksDB
• Default value: true

stats-dump-period

• Enables or disables Pipelined Write
• Default value: true

compaction-readahead-size

• The size of readahead when compaction is being performed
• Default value: 0
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: B|KB|MB|GB

writable-file-max-buffer-size

• The maximum buffer size used in WritableFileWrite
• Default value: 1MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: B|KB|MB|GB

use-direct-io-for-flush-and-compaction

• Determines whether to use O_DIRECT for both reads and writes in background flush and compactions
• Default value: false

rate-bytes-per-sec

• The maximum rate permitted by Rate Limiter
• Default value: 0
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: Bytes

rate-limiter-mode

• Rate LImiter mode
• Available values: 1 (ReadOnly), 2 (WriteOnly), 3 (AllIo)
• Default value: 2
• Minimum value: 1
• Maximum value: 3

auto-tuned

• Determines whether to automatically optimize the configuration of the Rate LImiter
• Default value: false

enable-pipelined-write

• Enables or disables Pipelined Write
• Default value: true

bytes-per-sync

• The rate at which OS incrementally synchronizes files to disk while these files are being written asynchronously
• Default value: 1MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: B|KB|MB|GB

wal-bytes-per-sync

• The rate at which OS incrementally synchronizes WAL files to disk while the WAL files are being written
• Default value: 512KB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: B|KB|MB|GB

info-log-max-size

• The maximum size of Info log
• Default value: 1GB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: B|KB|MB|GB

info-log-roll-time

• The time interval at which Info logs are truncated. If the value is 0s, logs are not truncated.
• Default value: 0s

info-log-keep-log-file-num

• The maximum number of kept log files
• Default value: 10
• Minimum value: 0

info-log-dir

• The directory in which logs are stored
• Default value: ""

rocksdb.titan

Configuration items related to Titan

enabled

• Enables or disables Titan
• Default value: false

dirname

• The directory in which the Titan Blob file is stored
• Default value: titandb

disable-gc

• Determines whether to disable Garbage Collection (GC) that Titan performs to Blob files
• Default value: false

max-background-gc

• The maximum number of GC threads in Titan
• Default value: 1
• Minimum value: 1

rocksdb.defaultcf | rocksdb.writecf | rocksdb.lockcf

Configuration items related to rocksdb.defaultcf, rocksdb.writecf, and rocksdb.lockcf.

block-size

• The default size of a RocksDB block
• Default value for defaultcf and writecf: "64KB"
• Default value for lockcf: "16KB"
• Minimum value: "1KB"
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

block-cache-size

• The cache size of a RocksDB block
• Default value for defaultcf: Total machine memory * 25%
• Default value for writecf: Total machine memory * 15%
• Default value for lockcf: Total machine memory * 2%
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

disable-block-cache

• Enables or disables block cache
• Default value: false

cache-index-and-filter-blocks

• Enables or disables caching index and filter
• Default value: true

pin-l0-filter-and-index-blocks

• Determines whether to pin the index and filter at L0
• Default value: true

use-bloom-filter

• Enables or disables bloom filter
• Default value: true

optimize-filters-for-hits

• Determines whether to optimize the hit ratio of filters
• Default value for defaultcf: true
• Default value for writecf and lockcf: false

whole-key-filtering

• Determines whether to put the entire key to bloom filter
• Default value for defaultcfand lockcf: true
• Default value for writecf: false

bloom-filter-bits-per-key

• The length that bloom filter reserves for each key
• Default value: 10
• unit: byte

block-based-bloom-filter

• Determines whether each block creates a bloom filter
• Default value: false

read-amp-bytes-per-bit

• Enables or disables statistics of read amplification.
• Available values: 0 (disabled), > 0 (enabled).
• Default value: 0
• Minimum value: 0

compression-per-level

• The default compression algorithm for each level
• Optional values: ["no", "no", "lz4", "lz4", "lz4", "zstd", "zstd"]
• Default value for defaultcf and writecf: ["no", "no", "lz4", "lz4", "lz4", "zstd", "zstd"]
• Default value for lockcf: ["no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no", "no"]

write-buffer-size

• Memtable size
• Default value: "128MB"
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

max-write-buffer-number

• The maximum number of memtables
• Default value: 5
• Minimum value: 0

min-write-buffer-number-to-merge

• The minimum number of memtables required to trigger flush
• Default value: 1
• Minimum value: 0

max-bytes-for-level-base

• The maximum number of bytes at base level (L1). Generally, it is set to 4 times the size of a memtable.
• Default value for defaultcf and writecf: "512MB"
• Default value for lockcf: "128MB"
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

target-file-size-base

• The size of the target file at base level
• Default: 8MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

level0-file-num-compaction-trigger

• The maximum number of files at L0 that trigger compaction
• Default value for defaultcf and writecf: 4
• Default value for lockcf: 1
• Minimum value: 0

level0-slowdown-writes-trigger

• The maximum number of files at L0 that trigger write stall
• Default value: 20
• Minimum value: 0

level0-stop-writes-trigger

• The maximum number of files at L0 required to completely block write
• Default value: 36
• Minimum value: 0

max-compaction-bytes

• The maximum number of bytes written into disk per compaction
• Default value: 2GB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

compaction-pri

• The priority type of compaction
• Optional values: 0 (ByCompensatedSize), 1 (OldestLargestSeqFirst), 2 (OldestSmallestSeqFirst), 3 (MinOverlappingRatio)
• Default value for defaultcf and writecf: 3
• Default value for lockcf: 0

dynamic-level-bytes

• Determines whether to optimize dynamic level bytes
• Default value: true

num-levels

• The maximum number of levels in a RocksDB file
• Default value: 7

max-bytes-for-level-multiplier

• The default amplification multiple for each layer
• Default value: 10

compaction-style

• Compaction method
• Available values: level, universal
• Default value: level

disable-auto-compactions

• Enables or disables automatic compaction
• Default value: false

soft-pending-compaction-bytes-limit

• The soft limit on the pending compaction bytes
• Default value: 64GB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

hard-pending-compaction-bytes-limit

• The hard limit on the pending compaction bytes
• Default value: 256GB
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

rocksdb.defaultcf.titan

Configuration items related to rocksdb.defaultcf.titan.

min-blob-size

• The smallest value stored in a Blob file. Values smaller than the specified size are stored in the LSM-Tree.
• Default value: 1KB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

blob-file-compression

• The compression algorithm used in a Blob file
• Available values: no, snappy, zlib, bzip2, lz4, lz4hc, zstd
• Default value: lz4

blob-cache-size

• The cache size of a Blob file
• Default value: 0GB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

min-gc-batch-size

• The minimum total size of Blob files required to perform GC for one time
• Default value: 16MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

max-gc-batch-size

• The maximum total size of Blob files allowed to perform GC for one time
• Default value: 64MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

discardable-ratio

• The ratio at which GC is triggered for Blob files. The Blob file can be selected for GC only if the proportion of the invalid values in a Blob file exceeds this ratio.
• Default value: 0.5
• Minimum value: 0
• Maximum value: 1

sample-ratio

• The ratio of (data read from a Blob file/the entire Blob file) when sampling the file during GC
• Default value: 0.1
• Minimum value: 0
• Maximum value: 1

merge-small-file-threshold

• When the size of a Blob file is smaller than this value, the Blob file might still be selected for GC. In this situation, discardable-ratio is ignored.
• Default value: 8MB
• Minimum value: 0
• Unit: KB|MB|GB

raftdb

Configuration items related to raftdb

max-background-jobs

• The number of background threads in RocksDB
• Default value: 2
• Minimum value: 1

max-sub-compactions

• The number of concurrent sub-compaction operations performed in RocksDB
• Default value: 2
• Minimum value: 1

wal-dir

• The directory in which WAL files are stored
• Default value: /tmp/tikv/store

security

Configuration items related to security

ca-path

• The path of the CA file
• Default value: ""

cert-path

• The path of the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) file that contains the X509 certificate
• Default value: ""

key-path

• The path of the PEM file that contains the X509 key
• Default value: ""

import

Configuration items related to TiDB Lightning import and BR restore.

num-threads

• The number of threads to process RPC requests
• Default value: 8
• Minimum value: 1

num-import-jobs

• The number of jobs imported concurrently
• Default value: 8
• Minimum value: 1

backup

Configuration items related to BR backup.

num-threads

• The number of worker threads to process backup
• Default value: MIN(CPU * 0.75, 32).
• Minimum value: 1

pessimistic-txn

enabled

• Enables the pessimistic transaction mode. For pessimistic transaction usage, refer to TiDB Pessimistic Transaction Mode.
• Default value: true

wait-for-lock-timeout

• The max time that a pessimistic transaction in TiKV waits for other transactions to release the lock, in milliseconds. If timed out, an error is returned to TiDB, and TiDB retries to add a lock. The lock wait timeout is set by innodb_lock_wait_timeout.
• Default value: 1000
• Minimum value: 1

wake-up-delay-duration

• When pessimistic transactions release the lock, among all the transactions waiting for lock, only the transaction with the smallest start ts is woken up. Other transactions will be woken up after wake-up-delay-duration milliseconds.
• Default value: 20