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Extended Show Engine InnoDB Status

This feature reorganizes the output of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS for better readability and prints the amount of memory used by the internal hash tables. In addition, new variables are available to control the output.

This feature modified the SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS command as follows:

  • Added two variables to control SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS information presented (bugfix for upstream bug #29126):
    • innodb_show_verbose_locks - Whether to show locked records
    • innodb_show_locks_held - The number of locks held to print for each InnoDB transaction
  • Added extended information about the InnoDB internal hash table sizes, in bytes, in the BUFFER POOL AND MEMORY section, also added a buffer pool size in bytes.
  • Added additional LOG section information.

Version changes

  • Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.10-1: Feature ported from Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.

Other Information

System Variables

innodb_show_verbose_locks

Option Description
Command-line Yes
Config file Yes
Scope Global
Dynamic Yes
Data type ULONG
Default 0
Range 0 - 1

Specifies to show records locked in SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS. The default is 0, which means only the higher-level information about the lock, for example, which table and index is locked, etc., is printed. If set to 1 enables the traditional InnoDB behavior. The locked records are dumped into the output.

innodb_show_locks_held

Option Description
Command-line Yes
Config file Yes
Scope Global
Dynamic Yes
Data type ULONG
Default 10
Range 0 - 1000

Specifies the number of locks held to print for each InnoDB transaction in SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS.

innodb_print_lock_wait_timeout_info

Implemented in Percona Server 5.7.20-18.

Option Description
Command-line Yes
Config file Yes
Scope Global
Dynamic Yes
Data type Boolean
Default OFF

Makes InnoDB write information about all lock wait timeout errors into the log file.

This allows to find out details about the failed transaction, and, most importantly, the blocking transaction. The query string can be obtained from the EVENTS_STATEMENTS_CURRENT table, based on the PROCESSLIST_ID field, which corresponds to thread_id from the log output.

Taking into account that blocking a transaction is often a multiple statement one, the following query can be used to obtain blocking thread statements history:

SELECT s.SQL_TEXT FROM performance_schema.events_statements_history s
INNER JOIN performance_schema.threads t ON t.THREAD_ID = s.THREAD_ID
WHERE t.PROCESSLIST_ID = %d
UNION
SELECT s.SQL_TEXT FROM performance_schema.events_statements_current s
INNER JOIN performance_schema.threads t ON t.THREAD_ID = s.THREAD_ID
WHERE t.PROCESSLIST_ID = %d;

Note

The PROCESSLIST_ID in this example is exactly the thread id from the error log output.

Status Variables

The status variables here contain information available in the output of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS, organized by the sections SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS displays. If you are familiar with the output of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS, you will probably already recognize the information these variables contain.

BACKGROUND THREAD

The following variables contain information in the BACKGROUND THREAD section of the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS. An example of that output is:

-----------------
BACKGROUND THREAD
-----------------
srv_master_thread loops: 1 srv_active, 0 srv_shutdown, 11844 srv_idle
srv_master_thread log flush and writes: 11844

InnoDB has a source thread that performs background tasks depending on the server state, once per second. If the server is under workload, the source thread runs the following: performs background table drops; performs change buffer merge, adaptively; flushes the redo log to disk; evicts tables from the dictionary cache if needed to satisfy its size limit; makes a checkpoint. If the server is idle: performs background table drops, flushes, and/or checkpoints the redo log if needed due to the checkpoint age; performs change buffer merge at full I/O capacity; evicts tables from the dictionary cache if needed, and makes a checkpoint.

Innodb_master_thread_active_loops

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the number of times the above one-second loop was executed for active server states.

Innodb_master_thread_idle_loops

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the number of times the above one-second loop was executed for idle server states.

Innodb_background_log_sync

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the number of times the InnoDB source thread has written and flushed the redo log.

SEMAPHORES

The following variables contain information in the SEMAPHORES section of the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS. An example of that output is:

----------
SEMAPHORES
----------
OS WAIT ARRAY INFO: reservation count 9664, signal count 11182
Mutex spin waits 20599, rounds 223821, OS waits 4479
RW-shared spins 5155, OS waits 1678; RW-excl spins 5632, OS waits 2592
Spin rounds per wait: 10.87 mutex, 15.01 RW-shared, 27.19 RW-excl

INSERT BUFFER AND ADAPTIVE HASH INDEX

The following variables contain information in the INSERT BUFFER AND ADAPTIVE HASH INDEX section of the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS. An example of that output is:

-------------------------------------
INSERT BUFFER AND ADAPTIVE HASH INDEX
-------------------------------------
Ibuf: size 1, free list len 6089, seg size 6091,
44497 inserts, 44497 merged recs, 8734 merges
0.00 hash searches/s, 0.00 non-hash searches/s

Innodb_ibuf_free_list

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

Innodb_ibuf_segment_size

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

LOG

The following variables contain information in the LOG section of the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS. An example of that output is:

LOG
---
Log sequence number 10145937666
Log flushed up to   10145937666
Pages flushed up to 10145937666
Last checkpoint at  10145937666
Max checkpoint age    80826164
Checkpoint age target 78300347
Modified age          0
Checkpoint age        0
0 pending log writes, 0 pending chkp writes
9 log i/o's done, 0.00 log i/o's/second
Log tracking enabled
Log tracked up to   10145937666
Max tracked LSN age 80826164

Innodb_lsn_current

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the current log sequence number.

Innodb_lsn_flushed

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the current maximum LSN that has been written and flushed to disk.

Innodb_lsn_last_checkpoint

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the LSN of the latest completed checkpoint.

Innodb_checkpoint_age

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the current InnoDB checkpoint age, for example, the difference between the current LSN and the LSN of the last completed checkpoint.

Innodb_checkpoint_max_age

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the maximum allowed checkpoint age above which the redo log is close to full and a checkpoint must happen before any further redo log writes.

BUFFER POOL AND MEMORY

The following variables contain information in the BUFFER POOL AND MEMORY section of the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS. An example of that output is:

----------------------
BUFFER POOL AND MEMORY
----------------------
Total memory allocated 137363456; in additional pool allocated 0
Total memory allocated by read views 88
Internal hash tables (constant factor + variable factor)
    Adaptive hash index 2266736         (2213368 + 53368)
    Page hash           139112 (buffer pool 0 only)
    Dictionary cache    729463  (554768 + 174695)
    File system         824800  (812272 + 12528)
    Lock system         333248  (332872 + 376)
    Recovery system     0       (0 + 0)
Dictionary memory allocated 174695
Buffer pool size        8191
Buffer pool size, bytes 134201344
Free buffers            7481
Database pages          707
Old database pages      280
Modified db pages       0
Pending reads 0
Pending writes: LRU 0, flush list 0 single page 0
Pages made young 0, not young 0
0.00 youngs/s, 0.00 non-youngs/s
Pages read 707, created 0, written 1
0.00 reads/s, 0.00 creates/s, 0.00 writes/s
No buffer pool page gets since the last printout
Pages read ahead 0.00/s, evicted without access 0.00/s, Random read ahead 0.00/s
LRU len: 707, unzip_LRU len: 0

Innodb_mem_adaptive_hash

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the current size, in bytes, of the adaptive hash index.

Innodb_mem_dictionary

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the current size, in bytes, of the InnoDB in-memory data dictionary info.

Innodb_mem_total

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the total amount of memory, in bytes, InnoDB has allocated in the process heap memory.

Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_LRU_flushed

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the total number of buffer pool pages that have been flushed from the LRU list, for example, too old pages which had to be flushed in order to make buffer pool room to read in new data pages.

Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_made_not_young

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the number of times a buffer pool page was not marked as accessed recently in the LRU list because of innodb_old_blocks_time variable setting.

Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_made_young

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the number of times a buffer pool page was moved to the young end of the LRU list due to its access, to prevent its eviction from the buffer pool.

Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_old

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the total number of buffer pool pages which are considered to be old according to the Making the Buffer Pool Scan Resistant manual page.

TRANSACTIONS

The following variables contain information in the TRANSACTIONS section of the output from SHOW INNODB STATUS. An example of that output is:

------------
TRANSACTIONS
------------
Trx id counter F561FD
Purge done for trx's n:o < F561EB undo n:o < 0
History list length 19
LIST OF TRANSACTIONS FOR EACH SESSION:
---TRANSACTION 0, not started, process no 993, OS thread id 140213152634640
mysql thread id 15933, query id 32109 localhost root
show innodb status
---TRANSACTION F561FC, ACTIVE 29 sec, process no 993, OS thread id 140213152769808 updating or deleting
mysql tables in use 1, locked 1

Innodb_max_trx_id

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the next free transaction id number.

Innodb_oldest_view_low_limit_trx_id

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the highest transaction id, above which the current oldest open read view does not see any transaction changes. Zero if there is no open view.

Innodb_purge_trx_id

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

This variable shows the oldest transaction id whose records have not been purged yet.

Innodb_purge_undo_no

Option Description
Scope Global
Data type Numeric

INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables

The following table contains information about the oldest active transaction in the system.

INFORMATION_SCHEMA.XTRADB_READ_VIEW

Column Name Description
READ_VIEW_LOW_LIMIT_TRX_NUMBER This is the highest transactions number at the time the view was created.
READ_VIEW_UPPER_LIMIT_TRX_ID This is the highest transactions ID at the time the view was created. This means that it should not see newer transactions with IDs bigger than or equal to that value.
READ_VIEW_LOW_LIMIT_TRX_ID This is the latest committed transaction ID at the time the oldest view was created. This means that it should see all transactions with IDs smaller than or equal to that value.

The following table contains information about the memory usage for InnoDB/XtraDB hash tables.

INFORMATION_SCHEMA.XTRADB_INTERNAL_HASH_TABLES

Column Name Description
INTERNAL_HASH_TABLE_NAME Hash table name
TOTAL_MEMORY Total amount of memory
CONSTANT_MEMORY Constant memory
VARIABLE_MEMORY Variable memory

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Last update: 2022-09-27