MySQL uses different type of threads for running specific utilities like mysql_install_db, flushes MyISAM tables, Replication, TCP/IP sockets etc. All threads can run with four different priorities like Interrupt, connect, wait and query priorities. Different types of threads are: The main thread : This one is created by MySQL client normally, this will be one … Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: April 2012
mysqldiskusage – to see database disk usage by MySQL Workbench
As we know, MySQL workbench is excellent GUI tool for managing MySQL DB servers, creating ERDs (Data Modelling) and for sql development. But with this GUI tool, we are getting some command-line utilities too like mysqldiskusage, mysqlindexcheck, mysqlfailover, mysqldiff, mysqldbcompare etc., Here, I’m describing mysqldiskusage utility, which is not only displays mysql db usage but … Continue Reading
mysqlslap – to check client load in MySQL 5.1
mysqlslap is native mysql utility to check client load in MySQL server. It’s introduced in MySQl 5.1. It seems very useful as it has lots of options to check load of your server by running different kind of queries with specific iterations, specific concurrency. Output will give you how much max/min/avg time has been taken … Continue Reading