# Lost leader, then the yb-tserver - while testing long-running (low throughput) writes

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/lost-leader-then-the-yb-tserver-while-testing-long-running-low-throughput-writes/1269>\
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**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/lost-leader-then-the-yb-tserver-while-testing-long-running-low-throughput-writes/1269 "2021-10-21T03:07:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![roman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/roman/32/393_2.png) [@roman](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/roman)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/lost-leader-then-the-yb-tserver-while-testing-long-running-low-throughput-writes/1269/2 "2021-10-21T03:10:29Z")

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this image shows some metrics: the humps (in order) correspond to:

1. timeout doing `SELECT COUNT(*) from bigtable`
2. `delete from bigtable`
3. running the test (described above)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/yugabyte/original/1X/a36251df8741c7949aeadfa23bb31650c4a8ba75.png)

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