Flush

InnoDB Page Cleaner Thread

The InnoDB Page Cleaner Thread is an InnoDB background thread that flushes dirty pages from the InnoDB Buffer Pool to disk. Prior MySQL 5.6 this action was performed by the InnoDB Master Thread.

SQL> SELECT thread_id, name, type
  FROM performance_schema.threads
 WHERE name LIKE 'thread/innodb/page%'
    OR name LIKE 'thread/innodb/srv_master%';
+-----------+-----------------------------------+------------+
| thread_id | name                              | type       | …

The InnoDB Flush Method has changed. This can have an impact on InnoDB write Performance.

When we analyze our customers systems we see typically a high fragmentation of the query cache after a while. This leads to a less optimal use of the Query Cache than possible.

With the following Query you can see the values for your Query Cache:

mysql> SHOW GLOBAL STATUS LIKE 'Qcache%';
+-------------------------+----------+
| Variable_name           | Value    |
+-------------------------+----------+
| Qcache_free_blocks      | 11328    |
| Qcache_free_memory      | 89442000 |
| Qcache_hits …