INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST
is
deprecated and subject to removal in a future MySQL release. As
such, the implementation of SHOW
PROCESSLIST
which uses this table is also deprecated.
It is recommended to use the Performance Schema implementation
of PROCESSLIST
instead.
The MySQL process list indicates the operations currently being
performed by the set of threads executing within the server. The
PROCESSLIST
table is one source of
process information. For a comparison of this table with other
sources, see Sources of Process Information.
The PROCESSLIST
table has these
columns:
ID
The connection identifier. This is the same value displayed in the
Id
column of theSHOW PROCESSLIST
statement, displayed in thePROCESSLIST_ID
column of the Performance Schemathreads
table, and returned by theCONNECTION_ID()
function within the thread.USER
The MySQL user who issued the statement. A value of
system user
refers to a nonclient thread spawned by the server to handle tasks internally, for example, a delayed-row handler thread or an I/O or SQL thread used on replica hosts. Forsystem user
, there is no host specified in theHost
column.unauthenticated user
refers to a thread that has become associated with a client connection but for which authentication of the client user has not yet occurred.event_scheduler
refers to the thread that monitors scheduled events (see Section 27.4, “Using the Event Scheduler”).NoteA
USER
value ofsystem user
is distinct from theSYSTEM_USER
privilege. The former designates internal threads. The latter distinguishes the system user and regular user account categories (see Section 8.2.11, “Account Categories”).HOST
The host name of the client issuing the statement (except for
system user
, for which there is no host). The host name for TCP/IP connections is reported in
format to make it easier to determine which client is doing what.host_name
:client_port
DB
The default database for the thread, or
NULL
if none has been selected.COMMAND
The type of command the thread is executing on behalf of the client, or
Sleep
if the session is idle. For descriptions of thread commands, see Section 10.14, “Examining Server Thread (Process) Information”. The value of this column corresponds to theCOM_
commands of the client/server protocol andxxx
Com_
status variables. See Section 7.1.10, “Server Status Variables”.xxx
TIME
The time in seconds that the thread has been in its current state. For a replica SQL thread, the value is the number of seconds between the timestamp of the last replicated event and the real time of the replica host. See Section 19.2.3, “Replication Threads”.
STATE
An action, event, or state that indicates what the thread is doing. For descriptions of
STATE
values, see Section 10.14, “Examining Server Thread (Process) Information”.Most states correspond to very quick operations. If a thread stays in a given state for many seconds, there might be a problem that needs to be investigated.
INFO
The statement the thread is executing, or
NULL
if it is executing no statement. The statement might be the one sent to the server, or an innermost statement if the statement executes other statements. For example, if aCALL
statement executes a stored procedure that is executing aSELECT
statement, theINFO
value shows theSELECT
statement.
Notes
PROCESSLIST
is a nonstandardINFORMATION_SCHEMA
table.Like the output from the
SHOW PROCESSLIST
statement, thePROCESSLIST
table provides information about all threads, even those belonging to other users, if you have thePROCESS
privilege. Otherwise (without thePROCESS
privilege), nonanonymous users have access to information about their own threads but not threads for other users, and anonymous users have no access to thread information.If an SQL statement refers to the
PROCESSLIST
table, MySQL populates the entire table once, when statement execution begins, so there is read consistency during the statement. There is no read consistency for a multi-statement transaction.
The following statements are equivalent:
SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST
SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST
You can obtain information about use of this table by checking the
values of the server status variables
Deprecated_use_i_s_processlist_count
and
Deprecated_use_i_s_processlist_last_timestamp
.
Deprecated_use_i_s_processlist_count
shows the
number of times the PROCESSLIST
table has been
accessed since the last server restart;
Deprecated_use_i_s_processlist_last_timestamp
provides the last time the table was accessed, as a Unix
timestamp.