21.7.6. Performance Schema Miscellaneous Tables

This section describes tables that do not fall into the table categories discussed in the preceding sections:

  • performance_timers: Which event timers are available.

  • threads: Information about server threads.

The performance_timers table shows which event timers are available:

mysql> SELECT * FROM performance_timers;
+-------------+-----------------+------------------+----------------+
| TIMER_NAME  | TIMER_FREQUENCY | TIMER_RESOLUTION | TIMER_OVERHEAD |
+-------------+-----------------+------------------+----------------+
| CYCLE       |      2389029850 |                1 |             72 |
| NANOSECOND  |            NULL |             NULL |           NULL |
| MICROSECOND |         1000000 |                1 |            585 |
| MILLISECOND |            1035 |                1 |            738 |
| TICK        |             101 |                1 |            630 |
+-------------+-----------------+------------------+----------------+

If the values associated with a given timer name are NULL, that timer is not supported on your platform. The rows that do not contain NULL indicate which timers you can use.

The performance_timers table has these columns:

  • TIMER_NAME

    The name by which to refer to the timer when configuring the setup_timers table.

  • TIMER_FREQUENCY

    The number of timer units per second. For a cycle timer, the frequency is generally related to the CPU speed. For example, on a system with a 2.4GHz processor, the CYCLE may be close to 2400000000.

  • TIMER_RESOLUTION

    Indicates the number of timer units by which timer values increase. If a timer has a resolution of 10, its value increases by 10 each time.

  • TIMER_OVERHEAD

    The minimal number of cycles of overhead to obtain one timing with the given timer. Performance Schema determines this value by invoking the timer 20 times during initialization and picking the smallest value. The total overhead really is twice this amount because the instrumentation invokes the timer at the start and end of each event. The timer code is called only for timed events, so this overhead does not apply for nontimed events.

The threads table contains a row for each server thread:

mysql> SELECT * FROM threads;
+-----------+----------------+----------------------------------------+
| THREAD_ID | PROCESSLIST_ID | NAME                                   |
+-----------+----------------+----------------------------------------+
|         0 |              0 | thread/sql/main                        |
|         1 |              0 | thread/innodb/io_handler_thread        |
|        16 |              0 | thread/sql/signal_handler              |
|        23 |              7 | thread/sql/one_connection              |
|         5 |              0 | thread/innodb/io_handler_thread        |
|        12 |              0 | thread/innodb/srv_lock_timeout_thread  |
|        22 |              6 | thread/sql/one_connection              |
...

The threads table has these columns:

  • THREAD_ID

    This is the unique identifier of an instrumented thread.

  • PROCESSLIST_ID

    For threads that are displayed in INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST, this is the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ID value, which is also the value that CONNECTION_ID() would return within that thread. For background threads (threads not associated with a user connection), PROCESSLIST_ID is 0, so the values are not unique.

    This column was named ID before MySQL 5.5.8.

  • NAME

    NAME is the name associated with the instrumentation of the code in the server. For example, thread/sql/one_connection corresponds to the thread function in the code responsible for handling a user connection, and thread/sql/main stands for the main() function of the server.

The threads table was named PROCESSLIST before MySQL 5.5.6.

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