SHOW ENGINE engine_name {STATUS | MUTEX}
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
Section 14.2.5.3, “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 MySQL
compilation time (for example, in
include/univ.i in the
InnoDB part of the MySQL source tree). If
UNIV_DEBUG was not defined, the statement
displays only the os_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
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 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 the
timed_mutexes system
variable is 1 (ON). If
timed_mutexes is 0
(OFF), timing is disabled, so
os_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 of tbl_name.memoryrow_size multiplied by
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
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).

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