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13.7.5.16 SHOW ENGINE Syntax

SHOW ENGINE engine_name {STATUS | MUTEX}

SHOW ENGINE displays operational information about a storage engine. It requires the PROCESS privilege. The statement has these variants: 

SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS
SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX
SHOW ENGINE {NDB | NDBCLUSTER} STATUS
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 Section 14.14, “InnoDB Monitors”.

SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX displays InnoDB mutex and rw-lock statistics. Statement output has the following columns:

Note

Most SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX output is removed in 5.6.14. SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX output is removed entirely in MySQL 5.7.2. InnoDB mutexes can be monitored using Performance Schema tables. For an example, see Section 14.13.1, “Monitoring InnoDB Mutex Waits Using Performance Schema”.

  • 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 is specific to your version of MySQL.

  • Status

    The mutex status. This field displays several values if WITH_DEBUG was defined at MySQL compilation time. If WITH_DEBUG was not defined, the statement displays only the os_waits value. In the latter case (without WITH_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 by spin_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 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. In MySQL 5.6 timing is disabled and this value is always 0.

SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX skips the mutexes and rw-locks of buffer pool blocks, as the amount of output can be overwhelming on systems with a large buffer pool. (There is one mutex and one rw-lock in each 16K buffer pool block, and there are 65,536 blocks per gigabyte.) SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX also does not list any mutexes or rw-locks that have never been waited on (os_waits=0). Thus, SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX only displays information about mutexes and rw-locks outside of the buffer pool that have caused at least one OS-level wait.

SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX information 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
...

This statement is intended to help the DBA understand the effects that different Performance Schema options have on memory requirements.

Name values consist of two parts, which name an internal buffer and a buffer attribute, respectively. Interpret buffer names as follows:

  • An internal buffer that is not exposed as a table is named within parentheses. Examples: (pfs_cond_class).row_size, (pfs_mutex_class).memory.

  • An internal buffer that is exposed as a table in the performance_schema database is named after the table, without parentheses. Examples: events_waits_history.row_size, mutex_instances.row_count.

  • A value that applies to the Performance Schema as a whole begins with performance_schema. Example: performance_schema.memory.

Buffer attributes have these meanings:

  • row_size is the size of the internal record used by the implementation, such as the size of a row in a table. row_size values cannot be changed.

  • row_count is the number of internal records, such as the number of rows in a table. row_count values can be changed using Performance Schema configuration options.

  • For a table, tbl_name.memory is the product of row_size and row_count. For the Performance Schema as a whole, performance_schema.memory is the sum of all the memory used (the sum of all other memory values).

In some cases, there is a direct relationship between a Performance Schema 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).

SHOW ENGINE NDB STATUS.  If the server has the NDB storage engine enabled, SHOW ENGINE NDB STATUS displays cluster status information such as the number of connected data nodes, the cluster connectstring, and cluster binary log epochs, as well as counts of various Cluster API objects created by the MySQL Server when connected to the cluster. Sample output from this statement is shown here: 

mysql> SHOW ENGINE NDB STATUS;
+------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| Type       | Name                  | Status                                           |
+------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| ndbcluster | connection            | cluster_node_id=7,
  connected_host=192.168.0.103, connected_port=1186, number_of_data_nodes=4,
  number_of_ready_data_nodes=3, connect_count=0                                         |
| ndbcluster | NdbTransaction        | created=6, free=0, sizeof=212                    |
| ndbcluster | NdbOperation          | created=8, free=8, sizeof=660                    |
| ndbcluster | NdbIndexScanOperation | created=1, free=1, sizeof=744                    |
| ndbcluster | NdbIndexOperation     | created=0, free=0, sizeof=664                    |
| ndbcluster | NdbRecAttr            | created=1285, free=1285, sizeof=60               |
| ndbcluster | NdbApiSignal          | created=16, free=16, sizeof=136                  |
| ndbcluster | NdbLabel              | created=0, free=0, sizeof=196                    |
| ndbcluster | NdbBranch             | created=0, free=0, sizeof=24                     |
| ndbcluster | NdbSubroutine         | created=0, free=0, sizeof=68                     |
| ndbcluster | NdbCall               | created=0, free=0, sizeof=16                     |
| ndbcluster | NdbBlob               | created=1, free=1, sizeof=264                    |
| ndbcluster | NdbReceiver           | created=4, free=0, sizeof=68                     |
| ndbcluster | binlog                | latest_epoch=155467, latest_trans_epoch=148126,
  latest_received_binlog_epoch=0, latest_handled_binlog_epoch=0,
  latest_applied_binlog_epoch=0                                                         |
+------------+-----------------------+--------------------------------------------------+

The rows with connection and binlog in the Name column were added to the output of this statement in MySQL 5.1. The Status column in each of these rows provides information about the MySQL server's connection to the cluster and about the cluster binary log's status, respectively. The Status information is in the form of comma-delimited set of name/value pairs.

The connection row's Status column contains the name/value pairs described in the following table.

NameValue
cluster_node_idThe node ID of the MySQL server in the cluster
connected_hostThe host name or IP address of the cluster management server to which the MySQL server is connected
connected_portThe port used by the MySQL server to connect to the management server (connected_host)
number_of_data_nodesThe number of data nodes configured for the cluster (that is, the number of [ndbd] sections in the cluster config.ini file)
number_of_ready_data_nodesThe number of data nodes in the cluster that are actually running
connect_countThe number of times this mysqld has connected or reconnected to cluster data nodes

The binlog row's Status column contains information relating to MySQL Cluster Replication. The name/value pairs it contains are described in the following table.

NameValue
latest_epochThe most recent epoch most recently run on this MySQL server (that is, the sequence number of the most recent transaction run on the server)
latest_trans_epochThe most recent epoch processed by the cluster's data nodes
latest_received_binlog_epochThe most recent epoch received by the binary log thread
latest_handled_binlog_epochThe most recent epoch processed by the binary log thread (for writing to the binary log)
latest_applied_binlog_epochThe most recent epoch actually written to the binary log

See Section 18.6, “MySQL Cluster Replication”, for more information.

The remaining rows from the output of SHOW ENGINE NDB STATUS which are most likely to prove useful in monitoring the cluster are listed here by Name:

  • NdbTransaction: The number and size of NdbTransaction objects that have been created. An NdbTransaction is created each time a table schema operation (such as CREATE TABLE or ALTER TABLE) is performed on an NDB table.

  • NdbOperation: The number and size of NdbOperation objects that have been created.

  • NdbIndexScanOperation: The number and size of NdbIndexScanOperation objects that have been created.

  • NdbIndexOperation: The number and size of NdbIndexOperation objects that have been created.

  • NdbRecAttr: The number and size of NdbRecAttr objects that have been created. In general, one of these is created each time a data manipulation statement is performed by an SQL node.

  • NdbBlob: The number and size of NdbBlob objects that have been created. An NdbBlob is created for each new operation involving a BLOB column in an NDB table.

  • NdbReceiver: The number and size of any NdbReceiver object that have been created. The number in the created column is the same as the number of data nodes in the cluster to which the MySQL server has connected.

Note

SHOW ENGINE NDB STATUS returns an empty result if no operations involving NDB tables have been performed during the current session by the MySQL client accessing the SQL node on which this statement is run.


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