The Performance Schema instruments waits, which are events that take time. Within the event hierarchy, wait events nest within stage events, which nest within statement events, which nest within transaction events.
These tables store wait events:
events_waits_current
: The current wait event for each thread.events_waits_history
: The most recent wait events that have ended per thread.events_waits_history_long
: The most recent wait events that have ended globally (across all threads).
The following sections describe the wait event tables. There are also summary tables that aggregate information about wait events; see Section 29.12.20.1, “Wait Event Summary Tables”.
For more information about the relationship between the three wait event tables, see Section 29.9, “Performance Schema Tables for Current and Historical Events”.
Configuring Wait Event Collection
To control whether to collect wait events, set the state of the relevant instruments and consumers:
The
setup_instruments
table contains instruments with names that begin withwait
. Use these instruments to enable or disable collection of individual wait event classes.The
setup_consumers
table contains consumer values with names corresponding to the current and historical wait event table names. Use these consumers to filter collection of wait events.
Some wait instruments are enabled by default; others are disabled. For example:
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> SELECT NAME, ENABLED, TIMED FROM performance_schema.setup_instruments WHERE NAME LIKE 'wait/io/file/innodb%'; +-------------------------------------------------+---------+-------+ | NAME | ENABLED | TIMED | +-------------------------------------------------+---------+-------+ | wait/io/file/innodb/innodb_tablespace_open_file | YES | YES | | wait/io/file/innodb/innodb_data_file | YES | YES | | wait/io/file/innodb/innodb_log_file | YES | YES | | wait/io/file/innodb/innodb_temp_file | YES | YES | | wait/io/file/innodb/innodb_arch_file | YES | YES | | wait/io/file/innodb/innodb_clone_file | YES | YES | +-------------------------------------------------+---------+-------+ mysql> SELECT NAME, ENABLED, TIMED FROM performance_schema.setup_instruments WHERE NAME LIKE 'wait/io/socket/%'; +----------------------------------------+---------+-------+ | NAME | ENABLED | TIMED | +----------------------------------------+---------+-------+ | wait/io/socket/sql/server_tcpip_socket | NO | NO | | wait/io/socket/sql/server_unix_socket | NO | NO | | wait/io/socket/sql/client_connection | NO | NO | +----------------------------------------+---------+-------+
The wait consumers are disabled by default:
Press CTRL+C to copymysql> SELECT * FROM performance_schema.setup_consumers WHERE NAME LIKE 'events_waits%'; +---------------------------+---------+ | NAME | ENABLED | +---------------------------+---------+ | events_waits_current | NO | | events_waits_history | NO | | events_waits_history_long | NO | +---------------------------+---------+
To control wait event collection at server startup, use lines
like these in your my.cnf
file:
Enable:
Press CTRL+C to copy[mysqld] performance-schema-instrument='wait/%=ON' performance-schema-consumer-events-waits-current=ON performance-schema-consumer-events-waits-history=ON performance-schema-consumer-events-waits-history-long=ON
Disable:
Press CTRL+C to copy[mysqld] performance-schema-instrument='wait/%=OFF' performance-schema-consumer-events-waits-current=OFF performance-schema-consumer-events-waits-history=OFF performance-schema-consumer-events-waits-history-long=OFF
To control wait event collection at runtime, update the
setup_instruments
and
setup_consumers
tables:
Enable:
Press CTRL+C to copyUPDATE performance_schema.setup_instruments SET ENABLED = 'YES', TIMED = 'YES' WHERE NAME LIKE 'wait/%'; UPDATE performance_schema.setup_consumers SET ENABLED = 'YES' WHERE NAME LIKE 'events_waits%';
Disable:
Press CTRL+C to copyUPDATE performance_schema.setup_instruments SET ENABLED = 'NO', TIMED = 'NO' WHERE NAME LIKE 'wait/%'; UPDATE performance_schema.setup_consumers SET ENABLED = 'NO' WHERE NAME LIKE 'events_waits%';
To collect only specific wait events, enable only the corresponding wait instruments. To collect wait events only for specific wait event tables, enable the wait instruments but only the wait consumers corresponding to the desired tables.
For additional information about configuring event collection, see Section 29.3, “Performance Schema Startup Configuration”, and Section 29.4, “Performance Schema Runtime Configuration”.