# InnoDB: Waiting for page\_cleaner to finish flushing of buffer pool keep cleaning
**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-waiting-for-page-cleaner-to-finish-flushing-of-buffer-pool-keep-cleaning/5887
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions
**Created:** [September 27, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-waiting-for-page-cleaner-to-finish-flushing-of-buffer-pool-keep-cleaning/5887 "2017-09-27T05:25:38Z")
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### Author:  [@newtomysql](https://forums.percona.com/u/newtomysql)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-waiting-for-page-cleaner-to-finish-flushing-of-buffer-pool-keep-cleaning/5887/1 "2017-09-27T05:25:38Z")
I have a very small percona 5.7 test server. I wanted to add the slow query log. After change the .cnf I tried to restart my percona but in the logs I keep seeing this.
2017-09-27T10:21:12.196823Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: FTS optimize thread exiting.
2017-09-27T10:21:12.197154Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Starting shutdown…
2017-09-27T10:21:12.297422Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) to /var/lib/mysql/ib\_buffer\_pool
2017-09-27T10:21:12.309798Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) dump completed at 170927 12:21:12
2017-09-27T10:21:12.497668Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for page\_cleaner to finish flushing of buffer pool
2017-09-27T10:22:12.692242Z 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for page\_cleaner to finish flushing of buffer pool
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How to recover it the fastest way ?
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### Author:  [@Mykola](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mykola)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/innodb-waiting-for-page-cleaner-to-finish-flushing-of-buffer-pool-keep-cleaning/5887/2 "2017-10-02T04:28:03Z")
Hi [newtomysql](https://percona.vanillacommunities.com/profile/x/x/192),
do you use VirtualBox?
can you install VirtualBox guest additions?