General Thread States
The following list describes thread State values that are associated with general query processing and not more specialized activities such as replication. Many of these are useful only for finding bugs in the server.
After createThis occurs when the thread creates a table (including internal temporary tables), at the end of the function that creates the table. This state is used even if the table could not be created due to some error.
AnalyzingThe thread is calculating a
MyISAMtable key distributions (for example, forANALYZE TABLE).checking permissionsThe thread is checking whether the server has the required privileges to execute the statement.
Checking tableThe thread is performing a table check operation.
cleaning upThe thread has processed one command and is preparing to free memory and reset certain state variables.
closing tablesThe thread is flushing the changed table data to disk and closing the used tables. This should be a fast operation. If not, verify that you do not have a full disk and that the disk is not in very heavy use.
converting HEAP to MyISAMThe thread is converting an internal temporary table from a
MEMORYtable to an on-diskMyISAMtable.copy to tmp tableThe thread is processing an
ALTER TABLEstatement. This state occurs after the table with the new structure has been created but before rows are copied into it.Copying to group tableIf a statement has different
ORDER BYandGROUP BYcriteria, the rows are sorted by group and copied to a temporary table.Copying to tmp tableThe server is copying to a temporary table in memory.
Copying to tmp table on diskThe server is copying to a temporary table on disk. The temporary result set has become too large (see , "How MariaDB Uses Internal Temporary Tables"). Consequently, the thread is changing the temporary table from in-memory to disk-based format to save memory.
Creating indexThe thread is processing
ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE KEYSfor aMyISAMtable.Creating sort indexThe thread is processing a
SELECTthat is resolved using an internal temporary table.creating tableThe thread is creating a table. This includes creation of temporary tables.
Creating tmp tableThe thread is creating a temporary table in memory or on disk. If the table is created in memory but later is converted to an on-disk table, the state during that operation will be
Copying to tmp table on disk.deleting from main tableThe server is executing the first part of a multiple-table delete. It is deleting only from the first table, and saving columns and offsets to be used for deleting from the other (reference) tables.
deleting from reference tablesThe server is executing the second part of a multiple-table delete and deleting the matched rows from the other tables.
discard_or_import_tablespaceThe thread is processing an
ALTER TABLE ... DISCARD TABLESPACEorALTER TABLE ... IMPORT TABLESPACEstatement.endThis occurs at the end but before the cleanup of
ALTER TABLE,CREATE VIEW,DELETE,INSERT,SELECT, orUPDATEstatements.executingThe thread has begun executing a statement.
Execution of init_commandThe thread is executing statements in the value of the
init_commandsystem variable.freeing itemsThe thread has executed a command. Some freeing of items done during this state involves the query cache. This state is usually followed by
cleaning up.Flushing tablesThe thread is executing
FLUSH TABLESand is waiting for all threads to close their tables.FULLTEXT initializationThe server is preparing to perform a natural-language full-text search.
initThis occurs before the initialization of
ALTER TABLE,DELETE,INSERT,SELECT, orUPDATEstatements. Actions taken by the server in this state include flushing the binary log, theInnoDBlog, and some query cache cleanup operations.For the
endstate, the following operations could be happening:- Removing query cache entries after data in a table is changed
- Writing an event to the binary log
- Freeing memory buffers, including for blobs
KilledSomeone has sent a
KILLstatement to the thread and it should abort next time it checks the kill flag. The flag is checked in each major loop in MySQL, but in some cases it might still take a short time for the thread to die. If the thread is locked by some other thread, the kill takes effect as soon as the other thread releases its lock.logging slow queryThe thread is writing a statement to the slow-query log.
NULLThis state is used for the
SHOW PROCESSLISTstate.loginThe initial state for a connection thread until the client has been authenticated successfully.
manage keysThe server is enabling or disabling a table index.
Opening tables,Opening tableThe thread is trying to open a table. This is should be very fast procedure, unless something prevents opening. For example, an
ALTER TABLEor aLOCK TABLEstatement can prevent opening a table until the statement is finished. It is also worth checking that yourtable_open_cachevalue is large enough.optimizingThe server is performing initial optimizations for a query.
preparingThis state occurs during query optimization.
Purging old relay logsThe thread is removing unneeded relay log files.
query endThis state occurs after processing a query but before the
freeing itemsstate.Reading from netThe server is reading a packet from the network.
Removing duplicatesThe query was using
SELECT DISTINCTin such a way that MariaDB could not optimize away the distinct operation at an early stage. Because of this, MariaDB requires an extra stage to remove all duplicated rows before sending the result to the client.removing tmp tableThe thread is removing an internal temporary table after processing a
SELECTstatement. This state is not used if no temporary table was created.renameThe thread is renaming a table.
rename result tableThe thread is processing an
ALTER TABLEstatement, has created the new table, and is renaming it to replace the original table.Reopen tablesThe thread got a lock for the table, but noticed after getting the lock that the underlying table structure changed. It has freed the lock, closed the table, and is trying to reopen it.
Repair by sortingThe repair code is using a sort to create indexes.
Repair doneThe thread has completed a multi-threaded repair for a
MyISAMtable.Repair with keycacheThe repair code is using creating keys one by one through the key cache. This is much slower than
Repair by sorting.Rolling backThe thread is rolling back a transaction.
Saving stateFor
MyISAMtable operations such as repair or analysis, the thread is saving the new table state to the.MYIfile header. State includes information such as number of rows, theAUTO_INCREMENTcounter, and key distributions.Searching rows for updateThe thread is doing a first phase to find all matching rows before updating them. This has to be done if the
UPDATEis changing the index that is used to find the involved rows.Sending dataThe thread is reading and processing rows for a
SELECTstatement, and sending data to the client. Because operations occurring during this this state tend to perform large amounts of disk access (reads), it is often the longest-running state over the lifetime of a given query.setupThe thread is beginning an
ALTER TABLEoperation.Sorting for groupThe thread is doing a sort to satisfy a
GROUP BY.Sorting for orderThe thread is doing a sort to satisfy a
ORDER BY.Sorting indexThe thread is sorting index pages for more efficient access during a
MyISAMtable optimization operation.Sorting resultFor a
SELECTstatement, this is similar toCreating sort index, but for nontemporary tables.statisticsThe server is calculating statistics to develop a query execution plan. If a thread is in this state for a long time, the server is probably disk-bound performing other work.
System lockThe thread is going to request or is waiting for an internal or external system lock for the table. If this state is being caused by requests for external locks and you are not using multiple mysqld servers that are accessing the same
MyISAMtables, you can disable external system locks with the--skip-external-lockingoption. However, external locking is disabled by default, so it is likely that this option will have no effect. ForSHOW PROFILE, this state means the thread is requesting the lock (not waiting for it).UpdatingThe thread is searching for rows to update and is updating them.
updating main tableThe server is executing the first part of a multiple-table update. It is updating only the first table, and saving columns and offsets to be used for updating the other (reference) tables.
updating reference tablesThe server is executing the second part of a multiple-table update and updating the matched rows from the other tables.
User lockThe thread is going to request or is waiting for an advisory lock requested with a
GET-LOCK()call. ForSHOW PROFILE, this state means the thread is requesting the lock (not waiting for it).User sleepThe thread has invoked a
SLEEP()call.Waiting for commit lockFLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK) is waiting for a commit lock.Waiting for global read lockFLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK) is waiting for a global read lock.Waiting for tables,Waiting for table flushThe thread got a notification that the underlying structure for a table has changed and it needs to reopen the table to get the new structure. However, to reopen the table, it must wait until all other threads have closed the table in question.
This notification takes place if another thread has used
FLUSH TABLESor one of the following statements on the table in question:FLUSH TABLES,tbl_nameALTER TABLE,RENAME TABLE,REPAIR TABLE,ANALYZE TABLE, orOPTIMIZE TABLE.Waiting forlock_typelockThe server is waiting to acquire a lock, where
lock_typeindicates the type of lock:Waiting for event metadata lockWaiting for global read lockWaiting for schema metadata lockWaiting for stored function metadata lockWaiting for stored procedure metadata lockWaiting for table level lockWaiting for table metadata lockWaiting for trigger metadata lock
Waiting on condA generic state in which the thread is waiting for a condition to become true. No specific state information is available.
Writing to netThe server is writing a packet to the network.