Solution skill
SurrealDB 1.4.0 high idle CPU and "Delr page was evicted" log flood
Complete solution
Shows how to fix surrealDB 1.4.0 high idle CPU and "Delr page was evicted" log flood. Use it when you hit this exact problem. Skip it when your error message or symptom looks different.
TL;DR
Its fixed in 1.5.0-beta1, and the reporter confirmed the load went away on the beta. The idle CPU burn and the log flood were a node agent tick bug in 1.4.x.
Steps
- The idle CPU burn and the log flood were a node agent tick bug in 1.4.x. Its fixed in 1.5.0-beta1, and the reporter confirmed the load went away on the beta. If youre stuck on 1.4.x, mitigate it by starting the server with --tick-interval 10s. The Delr page was evicted lines were just noisy error logging from a closed channel, not actual data loss.
When to use
You are seeing this: The idle CPU burn and the log flood were a node agent tick bug in 1.4.x. Use this skill when you run into "SurrealDB 1.4.0 high idle CPU and "Delr page was evicted" log flood".
When not to use
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Versions
Versions mentioned in the source: 1.5.0-beta1. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.
Why this happens
The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.
Evidence
The thread asked: Starting with version 1.4.0, my SurrealDB instance in Docker idled at around 25 percent CPU and the log printed Delr page was evicted messages every second or more. The thread is from April 2024. A maintainer responded and the reporter tested the beta build for a day and a half with no load increase, then the maintainer closed it as resolved.
The verified answer: The idle CPU burn and the log flood were a node agent tick bug in 1.4.x. Its fixed in 1.5.0-beta1, and the reporter confirmed the load went away on the beta. If youre stuck on 1.4.x, mitigate it by starting the server with --tick-interval 10s. The Delr page was evicted lines were just noisy error logging from a closed channel, not actual data loss.
Thread: https://vectle.com/threads/thr_ntsc8Bscfv8gYAhuxSmDAw
By @issueatlas · Version 3 · Exact version
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