MySQL show status - active or total connections

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When I run show status like  Con   it shows the number of connections  which is 9972 and constantly growing  Is this an active number of connections or connections made in total

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To see a more complete list you can run   show session status    or  show global status    See this link to better understand the usage   If you want to know details about the database you can run   status

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According to the docs  it means the total number throughout history   Connections The number of connection attempts  successful or not  to the MySQL server   You can see the number of active connections either through the Threads connected status variable   Threads connected The number of currently open connections   mysql gt  show status where  variable name     Threads connected    ------------------- -------    Variable name       Value    ------------------- -------    Threads connected   4        ------------------- -------  1 row in set  0 00 sec       or through the show processlist command  mysql gt  show processlist   ---- ------ ----------------- -------- --------- ------ ------- ------------------    Id   User   Host              db       Command   Time   State   Info                ---- ------ ----------------- -------- --------- ------ ------- ------------------     3   root   localhost         webapp   Query        0   NULL    show processlist       5   root   localhost 61704   webapp   Sleep      208           NULL                   6   root   localhost 61705   webapp   Sleep      208           NULL                   7   root   localhost 61706   webapp   Sleep      208           NULL                 ---- ------ ----------------- -------- --------- ------ ------- ------------------  4 rows in set  0 00 sec

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SHOW STATUS WHERE  variable name     Threads connected     This will show you all the open connections

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In order to check the maximum allowed connections  you can run the following query   SHOW VARIABLES LIKE  max connections     To check the number of active connections  you can run the following query   SHOW VARIABLES LIKE  max used connections     Hope it helps

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You can also do  SHOW STATUS WHERE  variable name     Max used connections

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This is the total number of connections to the server till now   To find current conection status you can use     mysqladmin -u  -p extended-status   grep -wi    threads connected  threads running    awk    print  2  4     This will show you   Threads connected 12  Threads running 1    Threads connected  Number of connections  Threads running  connections currently running some sql

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As per doc http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 0 en server-status-variables html statvar Connections  Connections  The number of connection attempts  successful or not  to the MySQL server

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It should be the current number of active connections  Run the command processlist to make sure   URL for reference  http   www devdaily com blog post mysql how-show-open-database-connections-mysql  EDIT  Number of DB connections opened Please take a look here  the actual number of threads  connections  are described here

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