The other day I was working on an issue where one of the slaves was showing unexpected lag. Interestingly with only the IO thread running the slave was doing significantly more IO as compared to the rate at which the IO thread was fetching the binary log events from the master. I found this out by polling the SLAVE STATUS and monitoring the value of Read_Master_Log_Pos as it changed over time. The
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