SHOW ENGINE
Syntax
SHOW ENGINE
displays operational information about a storage engine. The following statements currently are supported:
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX SHOW ENGINE PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA STATUS
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS
displays extensive information from the standard InnoDB
Monitor about the state of the InnoDB
storage engine. For information about the standard monitor and other InnoDB
Monitors that provide information about InnoDB
processing, see , "SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS
and the InnoDB
Monitors".
SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX
displays InnoDB
mutex statistics. The statement displays the following fields:
Type
Always
InnoDB
.Name
The source file where the mutex is implemented, and the line number in the file where the mutex is created. The line number may change depending on your version of MySQL.
Status
The mutex status. This field displays several values if
UNIV_DEBUG
was defined at MariaDB compilation time (for example, ininclude/univ.i
in theInnoDB
part of the MariaDB source tree). IfUNIV_DEBUG
was not defined, the statement displays only theos_waits
value. In the latter case (without UNIV_DEBUG), the information on which the output is based is insufficient to distinguish regular mutexes and mutexes that protect rw-locks (which permit multiple readers or a single writer). Consequently, the output may appear to contain multiple rows for the same mutex.count
indicates how many times the mutex was requested.spin_waits
indicates how many times the spinlock had to run.spin_rounds
indicates the number of spinlock rounds. (spin_rounds
divided byspin_waits
provides the average round count.)os_waits
indicates the number of operating system waits. This occurs when the spinlock did not work (the mutex was not locked during the spinlock and it was necessary to yield to the operating system and wait).os_yields
indicates the number of times a the thread trying to lock a mutex gave up its timeslice and yielded to the operating system (on the presumption that permitting other threads to run will free the mutex so that it can be locked).os_wait_times
indicates the amount of time (in ms) spent in operating system waits, if thetimed_mutexes
system variable is 1 (ON
). Iftimed_mutexes
is 0 (OFF
), timing is disabled, soos_wait_times
is 0.timed_mutexes
is off by default.
Information from this statement can be used to diagnose system problems. For example, large values of spin_waits
and spin_rounds
may indicate scalability problems.
Use SHOW ENGINE PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA STATUS
to inspect the internal operation of the Performance Schema code:
mysql> SHOW ENGINE PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA STATUS\G
...
*************************** 3. row ***************************
Type: performance_schema
Name: events_waits_history.row_size Status: 76
*************************** 4. row ***************************
Type: performance_schema
Name: events_waits_history.row_count Status: 10000
*************************** 5. row ***************************
Type: performance_schema
Name: events_waits_history.memory Status: 760000
...
*************************** 57. row ***************************
Type: performance_schema
Name: performance_schema.memory Status: 26459600
...
The intent of this statement is to help the DBA to understand the effects that different options have on memory requirements.
Name
values consist of two parts, which name an internal buffer and an attribute of the buffer, respectively:
- Internal buffers that are exposed as a table in the
performance_schema
database are named after the table. Examples:events_waits_history.row_size
,mutex_instances.row_count
. - Internal buffers that are not exposed as a table are named within parentheses. Examples:
(pfs_cond_class).row_size
,(pfs_mutex_class).memory
. - Values that apply to the Performance Schema as a whole begin with
performance_schema
. Example:performance_schema.memory
.
Attributes have these meanings:
row_size
cannot be changed. It is the size of the internal record used by the implementation.row_count
can be changed depending on the configuration options.- For a table,
is the product oftbl_name
.memoryrow_size
multiplied byrow_count
. For the Performance Schema as a whole,performance_schema.memory
is the sum of all the memory used (the sum of all othermemory
values).
In some cases, there is a direct relationship between a configuration parameter and a SHOW ENGINE
value. For example, events_waits_history_long.row_count
corresponds to performance_schema_events_waits_history_long_size
. In other cases, the relationship is more complex. For example, events_waits_history.row_count
corresponds to performance_schema_events_waits_history_size
(the number of rows per thread) multiplied by performance_schema_max_thread_instances
( the number of threads).