15.14.5 InnoDB INFORMATION_SCHEMA Buffer Pool Tables

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The InnoDB INFORMATION_SCHEMA buffer pool tables provide buffer pool status information and metadata about the pages within the InnoDB buffer pool.

The InnoDB INFORMATION_SCHEMA buffer pool tables include those listed below:

mysql> SHOW TABLES FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA LIKE 'INNODB_BUFFER%';
+-----------------------------------------------+
| Tables_in_INFORMATION_SCHEMA (INNODB_BUFFER%) |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU |
| INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE |
| INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS |
+-----------------------------------------------+

Table Overview

INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE: Holds information about each page in the InnoDB buffer pool.
INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU: Holds information about the pages in the InnoDB buffer pool, in particular how they are ordered in the LRU list that determines which pages to evict from the buffer pool when it becomes full. The INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU table has the same columns as the INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE table, except that the INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU table has an LRU_POSITION column instead of a BLOCK_ID column.
INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS: Provides buffer pool status information. Much of the same information is provided by SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS output, or may be obtained using InnoDB buffer pool server status variables.

Warning

Querying the INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE or INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU table can affect performance. Do not query these tables on a production system unless you are aware of the performance impact and have determined it to be acceptable. To avoid impacting performance on a production system, reproduce the issue you want to investigate and query buffer pool statistics on a test instance.

Example 15.6 Querying System Data in the INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE Table

This query provides an approximate count of pages that contain system data by excluding pages where the TABLE_NAME value is either NULL or includes a slash / or period . in the table name, which indicates a user-defined table.

mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE TABLE_NAME IS NULL OR (INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '/') = 0 AND INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '.') = 0);
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 1516 |
+----------+

This query returns the approximate number of pages that contain system data, the total number of buffer pool pages, and an approximate percentage of pages that contain system data.

mysql> SELECT
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE TABLE_NAME IS NULL OR (INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '/') = 0 AND INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '.') = 0)
) AS system_pages,
(
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
) AS total_pages,
(
SELECT ROUND((system_pages/total_pages) * 100)
) AS system_page_percentage;
+--------------+-------------+------------------------+
| system_pages | total_pages | system_page_percentage |
+--------------+-------------+------------------------+
| 295 | 8192 | 4 |
+--------------+-------------+------------------------+

The type of system data in the buffer pool can be determined by querying the PAGE_TYPE value. For example, the following query returns eight distinct PAGE_TYPE values among the pages that contain system data:

mysql> SELECT DISTINCT PAGE_TYPE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE TABLE_NAME IS NULL OR (INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '/') = 0 AND INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '.') = 0);
+-------------------+
| PAGE_TYPE |
+-------------------+
| SYSTEM |
| IBUF_BITMAP |
| UNKNOWN |
| FILE_SPACE_HEADER |
| INODE |
| UNDO_LOG |
| ALLOCATED |
+-------------------+

Example 15.7 Querying User Data in the INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE Table

This query provides an approximate count of pages containing user data by counting pages where the TABLE_NAME value is NOT NULL and NOT LIKE '%INNODB_TABLES%'.

mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE TABLE_NAME IS NOT NULL AND TABLE_NAME NOT LIKE '%INNODB_TABLES%';
+----------+
| COUNT(*) |
+----------+
| 7897 |
+----------+

This query returns the approximate number of pages that contain user data, the total number of buffer pool pages, and an approximate percentage of pages that contain user data.

mysql> SELECT
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE TABLE_NAME IS NOT NULL AND (INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '/') > 0 OR INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '.') > 0)
) AS user_pages,
(
SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM information_schema.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
) AS total_pages,
(
SELECT ROUND((user_pages/total_pages) * 100)
) AS user_page_percentage;
+------------+-------------+----------------------+
| user_pages | total_pages | user_page_percentage |
+------------+-------------+----------------------+
| 7897 | 8192 | 96 |
+------------+-------------+----------------------+

This query identifies user-defined tables with pages in the buffer pool:

mysql> SELECT DISTINCT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE TABLE_NAME IS NOT NULL AND (INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '/') > 0 OR INSTR(TABLE_NAME, '.') > 0)
AND TABLE_NAME NOT LIKE '`mysql`.`innodb_%';
+-------------------------+
| TABLE_NAME |
+-------------------------+
| `employees`.`salaries` |
| `employees`.`employees` |
+-------------------------+

Example 15.8 Querying Index Data in the INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE Table

For information about index pages, query the INDEX_NAME column using the name of the index. For example, the following query returns the number of pages and total data size of pages for the emp_no index that is defined on the employees.salaries table:

mysql> SELECT INDEX_NAME, COUNT(*) AS Pages,
ROUND(SUM(IF(COMPRESSED_SIZE = 0, @@GLOBAL.innodb_page_size, COMPRESSED_SIZE))/1024/1024)
AS 'Total Data (MB)'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE INDEX_NAME='emp_no' AND TABLE_NAME = '`employees`.`salaries`';
+------------+-------+-----------------+
| INDEX_NAME | Pages | Total Data (MB) |
+------------+-------+-----------------+
| emp_no | 1609 | 25 |
+------------+-------+-----------------+

This query returns the number of pages and total data size of pages for all indexes defined on the employees.salaries table:

mysql> SELECT INDEX_NAME, COUNT(*) AS Pages,
ROUND(SUM(IF(COMPRESSED_SIZE = 0, @@GLOBAL.innodb_page_size, COMPRESSED_SIZE))/1024/1024)
AS 'Total Data (MB)'
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE
WHERE TABLE_NAME = '`employees`.`salaries`'
GROUP BY INDEX_NAME;
+------------+-------+-----------------+
| INDEX_NAME | Pages | Total Data (MB) |
+------------+-------+-----------------+
| emp_no | 1608 | 25 |
| PRIMARY | 6086 | 95 |
+------------+-------+-----------------+

Example 15.9 Querying LRU_POSITION Data in the INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU Table

The INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU table holds information about the pages in the InnoDB buffer pool, in particular how they are ordered that determines which pages to evict from the buffer pool when it becomes full. The definition for this page is the same as for INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE, except this table has an LRU_POSITION column instead of a BLOCK_ID column.

This query counts the number of positions at a specific location in the LRU list occupied by pages of the employees.employees table.

mysql> SELECT COUNT(LRU_POSITION) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.INNODB_BUFFER_PAGE_LRU
WHERE TABLE_NAME='`employees`.`employees`' AND LRU_POSITION < 3072;
+---------------------+
| COUNT(LRU_POSITION) |
+---------------------+
| 548 |
+---------------------+

Example 15.10 Querying the INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS Table

The INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS table provides information similar to SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS and InnoDB buffer pool status variables.

mysql> SELECT * FROM information_schema.INNODB_BUFFER_POOL_STATS \G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
POOL_ID: 0
POOL_SIZE: 8192
FREE_BUFFERS: 1
DATABASE_PAGES: 8173
OLD_DATABASE_PAGES: 3014
MODIFIED_DATABASE_PAGES: 0
PENDING_DECOMPRESS: 0
PENDING_READS: 0
PENDING_FLUSH_LRU: 0
PENDING_FLUSH_LIST: 0
PAGES_MADE_YOUNG: 15907
PAGES_NOT_MADE_YOUNG: 3803101
PAGES_MADE_YOUNG_RATE: 0
PAGES_MADE_NOT_YOUNG_RATE: 0
NUMBER_PAGES_READ: 3270
NUMBER_PAGES_CREATED: 13176
NUMBER_PAGES_WRITTEN: 15109
PAGES_READ_RATE: 0
PAGES_CREATE_RATE: 0
PAGES_WRITTEN_RATE: 0
NUMBER_PAGES_GET: 33069332
HIT_RATE: 0
YOUNG_MAKE_PER_THOUSAND_GETS: 0
NOT_YOUNG_MAKE_PER_THOUSAND_GETS: 0
NUMBER_PAGES_READ_AHEAD: 2713
NUMBER_READ_AHEAD_EVICTED: 0
READ_AHEAD_RATE: 0
READ_AHEAD_EVICTED_RATE: 0
LRU_IO_TOTAL: 0
LRU_IO_CURRENT: 0
UNCOMPRESS_TOTAL: 0
UNCOMPRESS_CURRENT: 0

For comparison, SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS output and InnoDB buffer pool status variable output is shown below, based on the same data set.

For more information about SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS output, see Section 15.16.3, “InnoDB Standard Monitor and Lock Monitor Output”.

mysql> SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS \G
...
----------------------
BUFFER POOL AND MEMORY
----------------------
Total large memory allocated 137428992
Dictionary memory allocated 579084
Buffer pool size 8192
Free buffers 1
Database pages 8173
Old database pages 3014
Modified db pages 0
Pending reads 0
Pending writes: LRU 0, flush list 0, single page 0
Pages made young 15907, not young 3803101
0.00 youngs/s, 0.00 non-youngs/s
Pages read 3270, created 13176, written 15109
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: 8173, unzip_LRU len: 0
I/O sum[0]:cur[0], unzip sum[0]:cur[0]
...

For status variable descriptions, see Section 5.1.10, “Server Status Variables”.

mysql> SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Innodb_buffer%';
+---------------------------------------+-------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+---------------------------------------+-------------+
| Innodb_buffer_pool_dump_status | not started |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_load_status | not started |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_resize_status | not started |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data | 8173 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_bytes_data | 133906432 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_dirty | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_bytes_dirty | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed | 15109 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_free | 1 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_misc | 18 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_total | 8192 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_rnd | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead | 2713 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_evicted | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests | 33069332 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_reads | 558 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_wait_free | 0 |
| Innodb_buffer_pool_write_requests | 11985961 |
+---------------------------------------+-------------+

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